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.
Prevention of Radiation-Induced Skin Fibrosis by Topical Gene Therapy
Richard Zoumalan · New York University School of Medicine
Prevention of Vein Graft Intimal Hyperplasia via PTP
Harry Salinas MD · Massachusetts General Hospital (The General Hospital Corp.)
Primary Alveolar Cleft Healing After Gingivoperiosteoplasty and rhBMP-2.
Navanjun Grewal MD · University of California, Los Angeles
Prioritizing Preferences for Breast Reconstruction Through Shared Decision-Making
Ronnie Shammas MD · Duke University Medical Center
Production of autologous adipose bioreactors through ex vivo gene editing
Shailesh Agarwal MD · Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard
Prognostic value of neutrophil extracellular traps in human burn wounds
Jeremy Goverman MD · Massachusetts General Hospital
Prospective Antiviral Prophylaxis in a Burn Patient Population
Michael Neumeister MD, FRCSC, FACS · Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Prospective Longitudinal Study of Non-Operative Thumb CMC Arthritis Interventions
James Higgins MD · MedStar Health Research Institute
Psychosocial and Physical Functioning Following Body Contouring Surgery
David Sarwer PhD · University of Pennsylvania
Psychsocial Factors in Cosmetic Breast Augmentation
David Sarwer PhD · University of Pennsylvania