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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Focus Area

Grants Funded

Research Abstracts

Prospective Longitudinal Study of Non-Operative Thumb CMC Arthritis Interventions

Psychosocial and Physical Functioning Following Body Contouring Surgery

Psychsocial Factors in Cosmetic Breast Augmentation

Qualitative Evaluation of Goals and Expectations for Gender Affirming Surgery

Quality of Recovery of Local Anesthesia and Brachial Plexus Block in Hand Surgery

Quality-of-Life After Breast Augmentation

Quantification of Fat Graft Survival Using 3D Digital Analysis

Quantifying Botulinum Toxin Treatment Effect Using DISC Analysis

Quantitative Analysis of Radiation Induced Injury to the Mandible

Radiotherapy for Revasculatization and Reperfusion of an Ischemic Flap