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.
Electromagnetic Fields and Pectoral Block for Breast Reconstruction Pain Control
Christine Rohde MD, MPH · Columbia University Medical Center
Elucidating the Intracellular Signaling Events Responsible for Strain-Dependent Bone Formation
Pierre Saadeh MD · New York University Medical Center
Elusive Deformable Tissue Engineered Cartilage: Focus on Elastin
John van Aalst MD · University of North Carolina
Embryonic Stem Cells Preserve the Neuromuscular Junction
Terence Myckatyn MD · Washington University
Endogenous Tissue Engineering of Custom Mandible Free Flaps
Deniz Sarhaddi MD · University of Michigan
Engineered Tissues with Pervasive, Perfusible & Implantable Capillary Structures
John Morgan MD · Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Engineering Bone and Cartilage for ASCs and Scaffolds
Peter Letourneau MD · University of Nevada
Engineering Flexible Cartilage Using Human Chondrocytes
Niamh O'Sullivan MD · Harvard Medical School
Engineering Permanent Nipple Projection
Jaime Bernstein MD · Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Engineering Vascularized Soft Tissues for Definitive Complex Wound Reconstruction
Mario Solari MD · University of Pittsburgh