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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.

Predicting Breast Reconstruction Patient Reported Outcomes with Machine Learning

Jonlin Chen MD · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

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

Preliminary validation of the Pediatric PainSCAN

Kristen Davidge MD · Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

Pre-operative Nerve Blocks in Patients Undergoing Free-Flap Breast Reconstruction

Gordon Lee MD · Stanford University Hospital and Clinics

Preoperative Paravertebral Block in Breast Reconstruction

Chris Devulapalli MD · Johns Hopkins University

Prepectoral versus Subpectoral Reconstruction: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Justin Broyles MD · Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Preservation of Denervated Muscle By Neural Stem Cell Transplantation

Jonathan Winograd MD · Massachusetts General Hospital

Preventing Scar Contracture Formation by Inhibiting ROCK

Howie Levinson MD, FACS · Duke University Medical Center