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 Role of the Mamalian Target of Rapamycin in Keloid and Hypertrophic Scars
Anna Kuang MD · Oregon Health and Science University
The Role of Wnt Signaling and FGFR2 in Craniofacial Anomalies
Alison Snyder-Warwick MD · Washington University
The Scar Experience: Establishing Reference Values for the SCAR-Q
Whitney Quong MD · The Hospital for Sick Children
The sub-Saharan Africa Breast Reconstruction (SABR) Study
Adeyiza Momoh MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
The Use of Adipose Stem Cells in Breast Surgery: Friend or Foe?
Ernest Chiu MD, FACS · Tulane University
The Use of Alloderm in Two Stage, Tissue Expander/Implant Reconstruction
Colleen McCarthy MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
The Wnt Pathway and Biomaterials in Ssurgical Wound Regeneration
Stephen R. Sullivan MD, MPH, FACS · University of Washington
Therapeutic Fat Grafting: Breast Cancer Treatment and Reconstruction
Abigail Cochran MD · Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Therapeutic Lymphangiogeneis by Vascularized LN Transfer and 9-cis Retinoic Acid
Alex Wong MD · USC/University of Southern California
Therapeutic Prevention of Radiation Induced Non-Unions
Alexis Donneys MD · University of Michigan