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)