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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.

Implanted Bioreactor To Direct Development Of Engineered Cartilage

John van Aalst MD · The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 Microsurgical Training Through Spaced Learning

Jessie Koljonen MD · Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Improving Outcome Prediction in Breast Reconstruction Using Machine Learning

Jonas Nelson MD · University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Improving Sensory Recovery After Phalloplasty in Transmasculine Patients

Patrick Assi MD · Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC)