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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.

Utilizing Costal Cartilage Chondrocytes for Tissue Engineered Cartilage Construct

Miles Pfaff MD, MHS · The Regents of the University of California (Irvine)

Utilizing Double Negative T Regulatory Cells to Induce Tolerance

Dong Zhang · University of Pittsburgh

Utilizing Smart Phone Technology for Hand Surgical Education

Shaun Mendenhall MD · Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Validating a Web-Based Microsurgery Curriculum

Thomas Satterwhite MD · Stanford University

Validating SCAR-Q: A Patient-Reported Outcome Instrument for Scars

Natalia Ziolkowski MD, PhD · The Hospital for Sick Children

Validation of a novel model of Pfeiffer syndrome in zebrafish

Jennifer McGrath MD · Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Vascular Malformations: Investigation of Pubertal Hormone Expression

Reid Maclellan MD, MMSc · Children's Hospital Boston

Vascularized Tissue Engineered Scaffolds for In Vivo Anastomosis

Jason Spector MD · Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Vasculogenesis, Schwann Cells, and Senescence in Nerve Allografts

Amy Moore MD · Washington University in St.Louis

VEGF Upregulation by HBO in Ischemia/Reperfusion

Richard Baynosa MD · University of Nevada