Grants We 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.
Controlling Peripheral Nerve Signal Transmission with Light
Sahil Kapur MD · University of Wisconsin-Madison (Board of Regents University of Wisconsin System)
Corneal neurotization: studying a novel solution for neurotrophic keratitis
Joseph Catapano MD, PhD, FRCSC · The Hospital for Sick Children
Coronal Suturectomy Re-Ossification in the Saethre-Chotzen Mouse Model
Michael Bykowski MD, MS · University of Pittsburgh
Cranial Particulate Graft vs. Bone-Dust for Inlay Cranioplasty
Arin Greene MD · Children's Hospital Boston
CranioRate™: An image-based, deep-phenotyping toolset for craniosynostosis
Jesse Goldstein MD · Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Cross-Linguistic Speech Evaluation in Patients with Cleft Palate
Eugene Park MD · Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Culturing the Non-Culturable: The Secret Pathogens of Chronic Wounds
Stephen Harlin MD, FACS · Drexel University
Decellularized Lymph Nodes for Lymph Node Tissue Engineering
Daniel Cuzzone MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Decellularized Nerve Allografts and Motor Nerve Regeneration
Michael Nicoson MD · Washington University in St. Louis
Defining Anatomical Changes and AI Rating of Gender Affirming Facial Surgery
Michael Alperovich MD, MSc · Yale University