Grants We Funded
In 2017, The Plastic Surgery Foundation (The PSF) awarded 27 Investigator-Initiated projects and allocated $809,578 to support the newest, clinically relevant research in plastic surgery.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons/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.
Coronal Suturectomy Re-Ossification in the Saethre-Chotzen Mouse Model
Michael Bykowski MD · University of Pittsburgh
Cranial Particulate Graft vs. Bone-Dust for Inlay Cranioplasty
Arin Greene MD · Children's Hospital Boston
Cross-Linguistic Speech Evaluation in Patients with Cleft Palate
Eugene Park MD · Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Culturing the Non-Culturable: The Secret Pathogens of Chronic Wounds
Stephen Harlin MD, FACS · Drexel University
Decellularized Lymph Nodes for Lymph Node Tissue Engineering
Daniel Cuzzone MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Decellularized Nerve Allografts and Motor Nerve Regeneration
Michael Nicoson MD · Washington University in St. Louis
Defining Timing and Developing Treatment for Heterotopic Ossification
Benjamin Levi MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
Degradable Orthopedic Devices to Modulate Healing
Samuel Lin MD · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Delivery of miR through Biodegradable Scaffolds
Michael Ogilvie MD, MBA · Duke University Medical Center
Dendritic Cell Induced Tolerance in Rat Composite Allograft
Vu Nguyen MD · University of Pittsburgh