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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.

The Effect of Polymer-Bound BMP-2 on MC3T3-E1 Mineralization

Jay Calvert MD · Southern California Institute for Research and Education

The Effect of Traction on Neuroma Formation

Brent Ponce · University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Effects of Carbamylated Erythropoietin on Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

Paul Afrooz MD · University of Pittsburgh

The effects of FK506 on Schwann cell populations during nerve regeneration

Alison Snyder-Warwick MD · Washington University in St.Louis

The Effects of Graded Densities of Lipoaspirate on Fat Graft

Alexes Hazen MD · New York University Medical Center

The Effects of Inflammatory Mediators on Capsular Contracture in the Mouse Model

Howard Langstein MD · University of Rochester

The Effects of Modality Matching on Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

Thomas Tung MD · Washington University

The Effects of Nicotine Exposure on Cranial Suture Stem Cells

James Cray PhD · Medical University of South Carolina

The Impact of Blood Glucose Control on Symptomatic Neuroma Formation

Edward Lee MD · Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences

The Impact of Chest Wall Irradiation on Long-Term Patient Satisfaction and Health-Related Quality of Life Following Tissue Expander/Implant Reconstruction

Peter Cordeiro MD, FACS · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center