Grants 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.

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Grants Funded

Research Abstracts

Elucidating the Intracellular Signaling Events Responsible for Strain-Dependent Bone Formation

Elusive Deformable Tissue Engineered Cartilage: Focus on Elastin

Embryonic Stem Cells Preserve the Neuromuscular Junction

Endogenous Tissue Engineering of Custom Mandible Free Flaps

Engineered Tissues with Pervasive, Perfusible & Implantable Capillary Structures

Engineering Bone and Cartilage for ASCs and Scaffolds

Engineering Flexible Cartilage Using Human Chondrocytes

Engineering Permanent Nipple Projection

Engineering Vascularized Soft Tissues for Definitive Complex Wound Reconstruction

Enhancement of Nerve Regeneration Following Neonatal Nerve Injury