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.

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Grants We Funded

Research Abstracts

Role of Innervation in the Metabolic Response of Skin to Injury

Role of Integrin-Dependent Crosstalk in Hypertrophic Scar Formation

Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Reepithelialization

Role of miR-193a-5p in Skin Growth Induced by Tissue Expansion

Role of MMP-9 in Wound Healing

Role of non-adherent Clonogenic ASCs on T-cell Immunomodulation

Role of Schwann Cell CD-40 Status on Nerve Allograft Rejection

Role of Toll-Receptor Adenosine Signalling in Wound Repair

Sacrococcygeal Morphology and Morphometry of Patients with Pressure Injuries

Scar Contracture Prevention By Inhibition of Cell Contractility