Grants We Funded
Grant applicants for the 2022 cycle requested a total of over $2.9 million dollars. The PSF Study Section subcommittees of Basic & Translational Research and Clinical Research evaluated 115 grant applications on the following topics:
The PSF awarded research grants totaling almost $550,000 to support 19 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.
Development of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Nerve Injuries: NERVE-Q
Jana Dengler MD · University of Toronto
Development of a Standardized Microsurgical Skills Curriculum
Richard Baynosa MD · Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno
Development of an Interactive, Mutli-media Educational Program To Address Patient Expectations About Breast Reconstruction
Colleen McCarthy MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Development of Novel Cell Delivery Systems for Human Chondrocytes
Kimberly Singh MD · Emory University
Development of the FACE-Q Kids PRO Instrument
Anne Klassen PhD · McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences
Diagnosing Elevated Intracranial Pressure with Optical Coherence Tomography
Jordan Swanson MD, MSc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Differences Between Proliferative and Involutional Hemangiomas
Bryan Armijo MD · Case Western Reserve University - School of Medicine
Differential Density Microsphere Scaffold Optimizes Wound Healing
Jason Spector MD · Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Differential Effects of hTERT and BMP on Bone Healing in Murine Models
Russell Reid MD, PhD · University of Chicago
Dominant-negative IRF6 Mutant Analysis in Zebrafish
George Kamel MD · Massachusetts General Hospital (The General Hospital Corp.)