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.
Facial Subunits for Composite Tissue Transplantation
David Mathes MD · University of Washington
Fat Grafting to Enhance Nerve Regeneration After Delayed Nerve Repair
Stephen Kemp PhD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
Fat Retention in Diabetics after Pedal Fat Grafting
Jeffrey Gusenoff MD · University of Pittsburgh
FGFR2 Inhibition Mitigates Craniosynostosis in Crouzon Syndrome
Derek Steinbacher MD, DMD, FACS · Yale University School of Medicine
Financial Hardship after Surgery: A Mixed-Methods, Multicenter Study in India
Kavitha Ranganathan MD · Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
Flap Engraftment of Adipose Derived Stem Cells to Improve Vascularization
Scott Hollenbeck MD · Duke University
Formation of Osteoblastic Meaninfgul Networks in 3D Dynamic Cell Culture
Alexander Allori MD · New York University Medical Center
FReP cell-based Therapy for Skeletal Muscle Generation
Zhong Zheng PhD · The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
Functional coagulation and platelet assays in microsurgery
Eric Wang MD · University of California, San Francisco
Functional Connectivity and Brain Architecture in Nonsyndromic Craniosynostosis
John Persing MD · Yale University