Grants We Funded
Grant Applicants for 2020 requested more than $4.1 million. The PSF Study Section Subcommittees of Basic and Translational Research and Clinical Research Evaluated 111 applications on the following topics:
The PSF awarded Research Grants totaling more than $860,000 to support 24 plastic surgery research proposals.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons/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.
Prevention of Vein Graft Intimal Hyperplasia via PTP
Harry Salinas MD · Massachusetts General Hospital (The General Hospital Corp.)
Primary Alveolar Cleft Healing After Gingivoperiosteoplasty and rhBMP-2.
Navanjun Grewal MD · University of California, Los Angeles
Production of autologous adipose bioreactors through ex vivo gene editing
Shailesh Agarwal MD · Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard
Prognostic value of neutrophil extracellular traps in human burn wounds
Jeremy Goverman MD · Massachusetts General Hospital
Prospective Antiviral Prophylaxis in a Burn Patient Population
Michael Neumeister MD, FRCSC, FACS · Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Prospective Longitudinal Study of Non-Operative Thumb CMC Arthritis Interventions
James Higgins MD · MedStar Health Research Institute
Psychosocial and Physical Functioning Following Body Contouring Surgery
David Sarwer PhD · University of Pennsylvania
Psychsocial Factors in Cosmetic Breast Augmentation
David Sarwer PhD · University of Pennsylvania
Qualitative Evaluation of Goals and Expectations for Gender Affirming Surgery
Katherine Gast MD · University of Wisconsin
Quality of Recovery of Local Anesthesia and Brachial Plexus Block in Hand Surgery
Fanyi Zuo MD · McGill University