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.
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
Does osteocalcin released during exercise therapy impact nerve regeneration?
Matthew Curran · University of Alberta
Dominant-negative IRF6 Mutant Analysis in Zebrafish
George Kamel MD · Massachusetts General Hospital (The General Hospital Corp.)
Donor Dendritic Cells for Composite Tissue Allotransplantation
Justin Sacks MD, MBA · University of Pittsburgh
Doxycycline-Coated Silicone Implants Decrease Incidence of Bacterial Infection
Ryan Gobble MD · University of Cincinnati
ECM Hydrogel for Enhanced Biointegration of Acellular Dermal Matrix
Patrick Cottler PhD · The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
Economic Analysis of Finger Replantation
Erika Sears MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan