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.
Tolerance Induction to Composite Tissue Allotransplantation
Xin Xiao Zheng MD · University of Pittsburgh
Topical Antibiotic Elution in a Collagen Rich Hydrogel for Chronic Wound Healing
Paige Fox MD, PhD · Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research
Transfected Adipose Stem Cells for Peripheral Nerve Repair
Wesley Sivak MD, PhD · University of Pittsburgh
Transforming Cleft Speech Assessment and Care through Online Crowdsourcing
Alexander Lin MD · Saint Louis University
Transgenic Adipose Stem Cell-Mediated VEGF Delivery
R. Michael Johnson MD · Wright State University
Treatment of Peripheral Nerve Injury with P7C3
Stephen Kemp PhD · The Hospital for Sick Children
T-regulatory Mediated Immunosuppression after Lymphatic Injury
Swapna Ghanta MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Ulnar Neuropathy at the Elbow: A Cost-Utility Analysis
Jae Song MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
Ultrasonic Harvest of Adipose Tissue for Cell Therapies
Bret Schipper MD · University of Pittsburgh
Understanding the Financial Impact of Cleft Care
Alexandra Luby MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan