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.
Influence of Tensile Strain on Dural Cells and Cranial Sutures
Richard Kirschner MD · University of Pennsylvania
Inhibition of Skin Rejection in Composite Tissue Allotranplantation by Using migratory Inhibitors for Topical Immunosuppression
Stefan Schneeberger MD · University of Pittsburgh
Injectable Cellulosic Hydrogels
Peter Taub MD · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Injectable Hydrogels for Soft Tissue Augmentation
Peter Taub MD · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Injectable Shape-Memorizing Scaffolds for Skin Sculpting
Christoph Nabzdyk MD · Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
Inkjet biopatterning to spatially control osteo- and angiogenesis
Joseph Losee MD · University of Pittsburgh
Inside-Out Tissue Engineering for Hepatic Replacement
Geoffrey Gurtner MD · Stanford University
Intraoperative Imaging of Mastectomy Skin Flaps for Breast Reconstruction
Lesley Wong MD · University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Intraoperative Vascularized Adipose Flap Bioprinting
Dino Ravnic DO · The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Investigating the Role of Myofibroblasts in Wound Healing
Mark Fisher MD · Duke University