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.
Analysis of IRF6 Transcription Factor in Vertebrate Craniofacial Development
Eric Chien-Wei Liao MD, PhD · Massachusetts General Hospital
Analysis of wnt9a Regulation of Vertebrate Facial Morphogenesis
Eric Chien-Wei Liao MD, PhD · Massachusetts General Hospital
Antibody Dosing in Costimulation Blockade for Nerve Transplantation
Thomas Tung MD · Washington University
Antioxidant Carbon Nanoparticles for T cell modulation in vascularized composite
David Mathes MD · University of Colorado Denver, AMC and DC
Apoptosis in Cultured Calvarial Cells Following Radiation
Artur Gevorgyan MD · Hospital for Sick Children
App To Increase The Underrepresented Diversity in Plastic Surgery (APPTITUD-PS)
Clifford Pereira MD · The Regents of the University of California
Application of TRAIL-expressing ADSCs in Lipofilling
Mei Yang MD · Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Artificial Intelligence for Diagnosing Occult Scaphoid Fractures in Radiographs
Alfred Yoon MD · University of Michigan, Section of Plastic Surgery
Assessing Burdens to Axonal Regeneration across Nerve Autografts
Matthew Wood PhD · Washington University in St.Louis
Assessing Functional Connectivity Abnormalities in Sagittal Synostosis Using fMRI
Michael Alperovich MD, MSc · Yale University