Professor Aitman has authored over a hundred scientific papers, many highly cited, and has been invited to give over 150 plenary and state-of-the-art lectures at major national and international conferences. He co-ordinated multiple scientific projects and research consortia with career grant support of over £30 million. In 2007, with the support of Nature Genetics and the Wellcome Trust, he co-founded the Genomics of Common Disease meetings, now a prominent international meeting series in its ninth year. Prof Aitman has also been a mentor of many successful graduate students and postdoctoral scientists.