Martin R. Prince is currently Professor of Radiology at Cornell and Columbia Universities in New York City with his time allocated 50% for clinical MR and 50% for Imaging research. Dr. Prince is known for developing contrast-enhanced MR Angiography for which he received the Gold medal of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He has also been an associate editor of Radiology, deputy editor of JMRI and an enthusiastic teacher and promoter of MRI to radiologists and other physicians. He is active in the national efforts to establish standards for accrediting MRI facilities and for translating new MR imaging concepts into clinically useful tools. His publications include several books on MR Angiography and MR Physics and over 250 peer reviewed original manuscripts with over 11,000 citations and an H-index=54.  More than 30 of his students and fellows have gone on to faculty positions around the world.

Martin R. Prince developed the Nitinol IVC Filter during undergraduate and master's thesis research in Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At Harvard Medical School, he graduated cum laude based on his MD thesis research on the interaction of laser radiation with vascular tissues. During his doctoral thesis research in Medical Engineering and Physics at MIT, he developed techniques for laser fragmentation of calcific plaque and other calcific materials. This led to introduction of the laser lithotrytor for fragmentation of kidney stones. His doctoral thesis research also included invention optical fiber devices that are being commercialized for optical diagnostic techniques.

He completed an internship in internal medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, Moffit Hospital, and then a residency in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as fellowships in MRI and Angiography at Massachusetts General Hospital. While at MGH, Dr. Prince developed contrast-enhanced MR Angiography. After a short appointment as research scientist at Harvard Medical School, he took a position as Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Michigan and later as co-director of MRI. At Michigan, Dr. Prince developed a bolus triggering Gd:MRA technique which GE commercialized as MR Smartprep and later developed into fluoro-trigger MRA which all MR equipment manufacturers have licensed and commercialized. He extensively investigated dynamic gadolinium contrast injection schemes eventually developing the SmartSet hand injection system for MR Angiography and creating TopSpins, Inc. to commercialize it. He has published extensively on safe use of gadolinium including for patients with renal insufficiency and working with Jeff Maki, articulated the artifacts on 3D Gd:MRA related to contrast concentration variations in Fourier Space. Working with James Meaney, he developed bolus chase MR Angiography which has been commercialized by all scanner manufacturers for performing peripheral MR Angiography.

Since arriving at Cornell University, Dr. Prince has developed refinements of k-space mapping for MRA techniques, which accelerate data acquisition and minimize artifacts. He has also developed methods for acquisition and post-processing of time-resolved MR Angiography data including an innovative method developed with Professor Ramin Zabeh for automating post-processing of time-resolved data as well as a Bayesian method for highly accelerating time-resolved MR Angiography.  His MRA techniques have become the foundation of breast MR, dynamic liver MR, renal MR and dynamic contrast perfusion imaging through the body in addition to become the reference standard for arterial diagnosis in most vascular territories.