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.
Pilot study validation of the BREAST-Q REACT
Jonas Nelson MD · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Placebo-Controlled Surgical Treatment of Migraines
Bahman Guyuron MD · Private Practice
Plug and Play: Towards Anastomosable Vascular Networks
Jason Spector MD · Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Point of Care Detection & Prevention of Muscle Fibrosis In Critical Care Patients
Geoffrey Hespe MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
Portable Ex-Vivo Normothermic Limb Perfusion (EVNLP) Machine
Bahar Bassiri Gharb MD, PhD · Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Postop Antibiotics for Immediate Breast Reconstruction: A RCT
Brett Phillips MD, MBA · SUNY at Stony Brook
Post-transplant Malignancy in Organ Transplant Patients
Nijaguna Prasad PhD · Johns Hopkins University
Predicting Tissue Necrosis in Mastectomy Flaps using Intra-Op Tissue Oximetry
Nima Khavanin MD · Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine
Pre-Expansion of Recipient Site for Enhanced Fat Graft Survival
Dennis Orgill MD, PhD · Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
Prefabrication of Vascularized Bone Constructs Using Gene Therapy
Babak Mehrara MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center