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.
Pre-Expansion of Recipient Site for Enhanced Fat Graft Survival
Dennis Orgill MD, PhD · Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
Prefabrication of Vascularized Bone Constructs Using Gene Therapy
Babak Mehrara MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Preliminary validation of the Pediatric PainSCAN
Kristen Davidge MD · Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Pre-operative Nerve Blocks in Patients Undergoing Free-Flap Breast Reconstruction
Gordon Lee MD · Stanford University Hospital and Clinics
Preoperative Paravertebral Block in Breast Reconstruction
Chris Devulapalli MD · Johns Hopkins University
Prepectoral versus Subpectoral Reconstruction: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Justin Broyles MD · Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
Preservation of Denervated Muscle By Neural Stem Cell Transplantation
Jonathan Winograd MD · Massachusetts General Hospital
Preventing Scar Contracture Formation by Inhibiting ROCK
Howie Levinson MD, FACS · Duke University Medical Center
Prevention of Chronic Rejection in Composite Tissue Allograft
Jignesh Unadkat MD · University of Pittsburgh
Prevention of Radiation Skin Fibrosis by K/O of MMP-2, -9
Phuong Nguyen MD · New York University Medical Center