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.
Improving the Ex-vivo Eexpansion of Adipose Tissue Derived Stem Cells by Modulating Regulators of Cellular Senescence
Alex Wong MD
2006
University of Pittsburgh
Basic Research Grant
Tissue Engineering
Adipose tissue derived stem cells (ADSCs) have enormous potential for use in tissue engineering and cell-based regenerative medicine. Unfortunately, like all adult cells, ADSCs can only undergo a finite number of cell divisions prior to entering senescence. We hypothesize that by manipulating molecular regulators of senescence, such as Bmi-l or telomerase (hTERT), we will enable improved ex-vivo expansion of ADSCs and thereby enhance their potential clinical utility. Furthermore, by characterizing a large panel of independently derived ADSC lines for the expression of senescence markers such as Bmi-l, p 16Ink4a , and p 19Arf , we may be able to pre-select ADSC populations that are optimal for use in future tissue engineering applications or clinical protocols.
