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.
The Effects of Graded Densities of Lipoaspirate on Fat Graft
Alexes Hazen MD · New York University Medical Center
The Effects of Inflammatory Mediators on Capsular Contracture in the Mouse Model
Howard Langstein MD · University of Rochester
The Effects of Modality Matching on Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Thomas Tung MD · Washington University
The Effects of Nicotine Exposure on Cranial Suture Stem Cells
James Cray PhD · Medical University of South Carolina
The Impact of Chest Wall Irradiation on Long-Term Patient Satisfaction and Health-Related Quality of Life Following Tissue Expander/Implant Reconstruction
Peter Cordeiro MD, FACS · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
The Impact of Preoperative Mammography on Reduction Mammoplasty Episode of Care
Erika Sears MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
The Impact of Surgery in Craniosynostosis Using ERPs
Anup Patel MD · Yale University
The Influence of Acellular Dermal Matrix On Peri-Prosthetic Breast Niche
Ruth Tevlin MD · Stanford University
The Influence of Innervation on Tissue Engineered Muscle Fiber Type
Melissa Melvin MD · University of Michigan
The Influence of the Fetal Keratinocyte in Scarless Repair
Anuja Antony MD, MPH, FACS · Stanford University