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.
Enhancement of Nerve Regeneration Following Neonatal Nerve Injury
Joseph Catapano MD, PhD, FRCSC · The Hospital for Sick Children
Enhancement of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration using Intracellular Sigma Peptide
Bahar Bassiri Gharb MD, PhD · Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Enhancement of Wound Healing through Autologous CRISPR/Cas-edited Dendritic Cells
Dominic Henn MD · Stanford University
Enhancing Bony Reconstruction Through Gene Manipulation of ASCs
David Atashroo MD · Stanford University
Enhancing Nerve Repair By Photochemically Sealing Growth Factors
Prabhu Senthil-Kumar MD · Massachusetts General Hospital (The General Hospital Corp.)
Enoxaparin metabolism in reconstructive surgery patients
Christopher Pannucci MD · University of Utah
Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Tendon Regeneration
Kristoffer Sugg MD, PhD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
Evaluating GCPII Expression in Denervated Muscles through 18F-DCFPyL PET Imaging
Sami Tuffaha MD · Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Evaluating High Fidelity Cleft Lip Simulation for Education&Assessing Competence
Carolyn Rogers-Vizena MD · Children's Hospital Boston
Evaluating long noncoding RNAs as modulators of incisional scar formation
Juan Rendon MD, PhD · The Ohio State University