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.
Combination Therapy for Limb Allograft Acceptance and Nerve Regeneration
Thomas Tung MD · Washington University
Combining Human Pre-Adipocytes and Biological Scaffolds for Fat Engineering
Karol Gutowski MD, FACS · University of Wisconsin
Comprehensive Prevention Program for Breast Cancer Related Lymphedema
Michelle Coriddi MD · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)
Computational Morphometric Image Prediction in Surgery
John Fischer MD, MPH · The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
CranioRate™: An image-based, deep-phenotyping toolset for craniosynostosis
Jesse Goldstein MD · Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Degradable Orthopedic Devices to Modulate Healing
Samuel Lin MD · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Determining the Mechanism of Arteriovenous Malformation
Arin Greene MD · Children's Hospital Boston
Determining the Mechanism of Pediatric Capillary Malformation
Arin Greene MD · Children's Hospital Boston
Developing the TRANS-Q to Measure Outcomes for Gender-Affirming Treatment
Anne Klassen PhD · McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences
Development of a Degradable Bioengineered Skin Equivalent
Howie Levinson MD, FACS · Duke University Medical Center