Grants Funded
Grant applicants for the 2024 cycle requested a total of nearly $3 million dollars. The PSF Study Section Subcommittees of Basic & Translational Research and Clinical Research evaluated more than 100 grant applications on the following topics:
The PSF awarded research grants totaling over $650,000 dollars to support more than 20 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
2009
New York University School of Medicine
PSF/AAO-HHNF Academic Scholar Research Grant
Richard A. Zoumalan attended medical school at Northwestern University and is currently a chief resident of Otolaryngology at New York University School of Medicine, where he has published numerous first-author papers in peer-reviewed journals. In the basic science realm, he is on the forefront of research into topical gene therapy. He has expanded this project to involve two other residents within his department: Judy W. Lee and Benjamin Roman. Next year, he will do a one year fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery with Drs. Wayne Larrabee and Craig Murakami at the University of Washington, Seattle.