Dr. Neetu Prince, MD

Educational Qualifications

Professional Experience

Research interests and skills

Islet cell biology, cell culture, cell viability assays, cytotoxicity, molecular biology techniques, flow cytometry, animal experiments

Awards

1. Was awarded travel grant by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to attend the 30th International Complement Workshop in Australia from 14-19th September 2025.  

2. Was awarded the APPI award for the best research paper in endocrinology/neuroendocrinology in Physiology/Pharmacology or Allied Sciences, instituted in the name of AV Tilak Parvathi Devi for the year 2024 during the 70th Annual National Conference of the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India (APPI) on 14th December 2024 at ESIC Medical College, Chennai. 

3. Was awarded the Junior Travel Fellowship by Christian Medical College, Vellore in 2023 to undergo training programme at Centre for Clinical and Translational Research, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Ohio, Columbus, USA.

4. Won the award for best poster presentation on 15th December 2022, during the 68th annual national conference of the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India held at PGI Chandigarh

5. Won the third prize in the basic science faculty poster presentation at the 9th annual research day held in Christian Medical College, Vellore on 12th October 2018.

6. Won the third prize in the national physiology quiz held during the 59th annual conference of the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India (APPI) held at NIMHANS, Bangalore on 27/12/2013.

Publications

1. Prince N, Ramasamy J, Amirtham SM, Rajendran E and Mani P, 2024. Isolated bovine pancreatic islets as an alternate in vitro model for diabetes research. Indian Journal of Medical Research 159(5);519-526 https://doi.org/10.25259/ijmr_851_22

2. Singh SC, Prince N, Amirtham SM and Subramani S, 2024. Effect of Cleistanthoside A on blood pressure of rats - Can vasoconstrictors help in Cleistanthus collinus poisoning? Indian J Pharmacol 56, 146–147. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijp.ijp_491_23

3. Senthamizselvan R, Amirtham S M, Tharion E, Sandya Rani B and Prince N., 2024. Pilot testing of a simple alternative tissue processing method for immunofluorescence staining. National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology 14, 0–0. https://doi.org/10.5455/njppp.2024.14.02080202423022024

4. Rout, S., Amirtham, S.M., Prasad, M., Cherian, A.G., B, S.R., Sudhakar, Y., Prince, N., 2023. In Vitro Human Fetal Pancreatic Islets to Redefine Pancreatic Research. Cureus 15, e43244. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43244

5. Padmaja, K., Parameswaran, R., Srisangeetha, G., Zachariah, S.M., Prince, N., Amirtham, S.M., Beifuss, U., Conrad, J., Subramani, S., 2023. Cleistanthin A causes peripheral vasoconstriction and myocardial depression in isolated tissue preparations. Toxicol Mech Methods 33, 719–731. https://doi.org/10.1080/15376516.2023.2237581

6. Prince, N., Rajendran, E., Sidharthan, A., Amirtham, S.M., Kanthakumar, P., Oommen, V., Bhaskar, A., 2021. Rat skeletal muscle-nerve preparation to teach skeletal muscle physiology. Adv Physiol Educ 45, 869–879. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00143.2020

7. Amirtham, S.M., Prince, N., Venkateswarulu, M., Chandra Mondal, I., Raman, S., Raj, R., Rajendran, E., Jebaraj, B., Vaithiyalingam, A., Rajasegaran, R., Mukadam, F.A., Bhaskar, A., Ghosh, S., Conrad, J., Beifuss, U., Subramani, S., 2021. Elusive Toxin in Cleistanthus collinus Causing Vasoconstriction and Myocardial Depression: Detailed NMR Analyses and Biological Studies of Cleistanthoside A. ACS Omega 6, 24553–24561. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c03138 

8. Vinod, E., Jefferson, T.E., Amirtham, S.M., Prince, N., Geevar, T., Rebekah, G., Ramasamy, B., Kachroo, U., 2020a. Correlation between synovial fluid calcium containing crystal estimation and varying grades of osteoarthritis created using a rabbit model: Potential diagnostic tool. J Clin Orthop Trauma 11, S506–S511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcot.2020.03.03 

9. Prince, N., Oommen, V., Bhaskar, A., 2018. Chicken intestine: an alternative to the mammalian intestine for physiology experimentation. Adv Physiol Educ 42, 387–389. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00031.2018 [Pubmed] [PDF]

10. Kachroo, U., Vinod, E., Balasubramanian, S., W, J., Prince, N., 2018. Red cell indexes made easy using an interactive animation: do students and their scores concur? Adv Physiol Educ 42, 50–55. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00142.2017 [Pubmed] [PDF]