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.
Host-Biofilm Interaction in Breast Implant Associated ALCL
Mithun Sinha PhD · Indiana University
HSRE Promoter Driven Gene Expression To Improve Ischemis
Kevin Cross MD · Weill Cornell Medical College
Human Adipose Derived Adult Stem Cells as an Engineered Bone Substitute for Segmental Osseous Defects
Kurtis Moyer MD · Duke University
Human and Mouse Osteoblasts Exhibit Distinct Patterns of Osteogenesis in 3D
Clifford Pereira MD · VA Medical Center West Los Angeles
Human Muscle Progenitor and Regeneration
Eric Chien-Wei Liao MD, PhD · Massachusetts General Hospital (The General Hospital Corp.)
Hydrogen sulfide as pre-and post-ischemic cytoprotectant in vivo
Jason Spector MD · Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Identification of Regenerative and Scarring Fibroblasts in the Orofacial Region
Michelle Griffin MD · Stanford University School of Medicine
Identification of the Human Cutaneous Fibroblast Stem Cell
Mimi Borrelli MD · Stanford University
IGF-1 Nanoparticles to Improve Functional Recovery after Peripheral Nerve Injury
Philip Hanwright MD · Johns Hopkins University-School of Medicine
IGFR1: A Potential Therapeutic Target For Dupuytren's Disease
Bing Siang Gan MD · Lawson Health Research Institute (Lawson)