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.
Synthesis Of A Tissue Engineered Periosteum
Bjorn Schonmeyr MD
2007
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Basic Research Grant
Tissue Engineering
Periosteal grafts can aid in fracture repair and promote healing of bone defects by providing bone progenitor cells and acting as a barrier to scar tissue. Unfortunately, these grafts have many of the same disadvantages as bone grafts (i.e. donor site morbidity and limited donor sites). We hypothesize that a tissue engineered construct composed of acellular human dermis (Alloderm) and bone progenitor cells would provide a periosteum-like material with the potential to deliver cells and growth factors thus promoting osseous regeneration.