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.

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Grants We Funded

Research Abstracts

Improved Diagnostic Accuracy of Periprosthetic Breast Infection: Alpha-Defensin 1

Improved Ischemic Flap Survival Using Oral HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Improved Tissue Eengineering Tthrough Predictive Mechanistic Models

Improving Cosmetics and Function of Skin Grafting by Blocking Mechanotransduction

Improving Decision Making in Breast Reconstruction: A Validated Option Grid

Improving fat graft survival by ex vivo non-viral gene delivery

Improving Somatosensory Cortical Response Properties After Compsite Tissue Transplantation

Improving the Ex-vivo Eexpansion of Adipose Tissue Derived Stem Cells by Modulating Regulators of Cellular Senescence

Improving Wound Healing Using the Naturally Occurring Antigen Alpha Gal

In Utero Gene Delivery for Rescue of Cleft Palate in a TGF-Beta 3 Knockout Mouse