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

Implanted Bioreactor To Direct Development Of Engineered Cartilage

Improved Diagnostic Accuracy of Periprosthetic Breast Infection: Alpha-Defensin 1

Improved Ischemic Flap Survival Using Oral HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Improved Tissue Eengineering Tthrough Predictive Mechanistic Models

Improving Cosmetics and Function of Skin Grafting by Blocking Mechanotransduction

Improving Decision Making in Breast Reconstruction: A Validated Option Grid

Improving fat graft survival by ex vivo non-viral gene delivery

Improving Microsurgical Training Through Spaced Learning

Improving Outcome Prediction in Breast Reconstruction Using Machine Learning

Improving Sensory Recovery After Phalloplasty in Transmasculine Patients