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.
Improving Outcome Prediction in Breast Reconstruction Using Machine Learning
Jonas Nelson MD · University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Improving Sensory Recovery After Phalloplasty in Transmasculine Patients
Patrick Assi MD · Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC)
Improving Somatosensory Cortical Response Properties After Compsite Tissue Transplantation
Kia Washington MD · University of Pittsburgh
Inhibition of Skin Rejection in Composite Tissue Allotranplantation by Using migratory Inhibitors for Topical Immunosuppression
Stefan Schneeberger MD · University of Pittsburgh
Injectable Cellulosic Hydrogels
Peter Taub MD · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Intraoperative Imaging of Mastectomy Skin Flaps for Breast Reconstruction
Lesley Wong MD · University of Kentucky Research Foundation
iPSC based Tissue Engineered Graft for Wound Healing
Henry Hsia MD · CT - 19/19 - Yale University School of Medicine
Lipoaspirate: Its Potential to Repair Radiation Damage in a Murine Model
Alexes Hazen MD · New York University Medical Center
Measuring Patient Expectations for Breast Reconstruction
Andrea Pusic MD, MHS, FACS, FRCSC · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Mechanism of Hemangioma: Role of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone
Reid Maclellan MD, MMSc · Children's Hospital Boston