Grants We Funded
Grant applicants for the 2023 cycle requested a total of nearly $4 million dollars. The PSF Study Section Subcommittees of Basic & Translational Research and Clinical Research evaluated nearly 140 grant applications on the following topics:
The PSF awarded research grants totaling over $1 million dollars to support nearly 30 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 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
Tolerance Induction to Composite Tissue Allotransplantation
Xin Xiao Zheng MD · University of Pittsburgh
VEGFA as a Potential Target to Enhance Motor Recovery After Nerve Injury
Alison Snyder-Warwick MD · Washington University