Grants Funded
Grant applicants for the 2024 cycle requested a total of nearly $3 million dollars. The PSF Study Section Subcommittees of Basic & Translational Research and Clinical Research evaluated more than 100 grant applications on the following topics:
The PSF awarded research grants totaling over $650,000 dollars to support more than 20 plastic surgery research proposals.
ASPS/PSF leadership is committed to continuing to provide high levels of investigator-initiated research support to ensure that plastic surgeons have the needed research resources to be pioneers and innovators in advancing the practice of medicine.
Research Abstracts
Search The PSF database to have easy access to full-text grant abstracts from past PSF-funded research projects 2003 to present. All abstracts are the work of the Principal Investigators and were retrieved from their PSF grant applications. Several different filters may be applied to locate abstracts specific to a particular focus area or PSF funding mechanism.
The Development of Strategies to Optimize Autogenous Fat Grafting
Stephen Baker MD · Georgetown University
The International Breast Reconstruction Outcome Consortium
Edwin Wilkins MD · University of Michigan
The Role of the Mamalian Target of Rapamycin in Keloid and Hypertrophic Scars
Anna Kuang MD · Oregon Health and Science University
The sub-Saharan Africa Breast Reconstruction (SABR) Study
Adeyiza Momoh MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
The Use of Adipose Stem Cells in Breast Surgery: Friend or Foe?
Ernest Chiu MD, FACS · Tulane University
The Use of Alloderm in Two Stage, Tissue Expander/Implant Reconstruction
Colleen McCarthy MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Therapeutic Fat Grafting: Breast Cancer Treatment and Reconstruction
Abigail Cochran MD · Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Therapeutic Lymphangiogeneis by Vascularized LN Transfer and 9-cis Retinoic Acid
Alex Wong MD · USC/University of Southern California
Tissue Derived Stem Cells and Radiation Injury
Babak Mehrara MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Tissue Engineered Biocompatible Tendon/Ligament-Bone Constructs
Simon Farnebo MD, PhD · Stanford University