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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.

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

Marten Basta MD · Rhode Island Hospital

Improved Ischemic Flap Survival Using Oral HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Babak Mehrara MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Improved Tissue Eengineering Tthrough Predictive Mechanistic Models

Mytien Goldberg MD · University of Southern California

Improving Cosmetics and Function of Skin Grafting by Blocking Mechanotransduction

Kellen Chen PhD · Stanford University

Improving Decision Making in Breast Reconstruction: A Validated Option Grid

Katie Weichman MD · Montefiore Medical Center

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

Natasa Miljkovic · University of Pittsburgh

Improving Somatosensory Cortical Response Properties After Compsite Tissue Transplantation

Kia Washington MD · University of Pittsburgh

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

Alex Wong MD · University of Pittsburgh

Improving Wound Healing Using the Naturally Occurring Antigen Alpha Gal

Jason Spector MD · Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University

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

Hyun-Duck Nah MD, DMD, PhD · University of Pennsylvania