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.
Rapid Detection of Vessel Occlusion in Free Tissue Transfer
Timothy King MD, PhD, MSBE, FAAP, FACS · University of Wisconsin-Madison (Board of Regents University of Wisconsin System)
Real time fate mapping of palatogenic cranial neural crest cells
Eric Chien-Wei Liao MD, PhD · Massachusetts General Hospital (The General Hospital Corp.)
Real Time, in Situ Microimaging of Peripheral Nerve Injury
Francis Henry MD · Massachusetts General Hospital
RECONJOINT: A Decision Tool for Patient-Centered Breast Reconstruction Care
Ronnie Shammas MD · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)
Reconstructing Irradiated Soft Tissue with Decellularized Human Adipose Matrix
Derrick Wan MD · Stanford University
Reconstructive surgery resident stress while learning novel microsurgical tasks
Anthony Echo MD · The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Recovery from Mastectomy:Qualifying Survivorship through Patient-CenteredOutcomes
Kasandra Dassoulas MD · University of Virginia
Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections in the Burn Intensive Care Unit
Julie Caffrey DO · Johns Hopkins University-School of Medicine
Reduction of Scarring In-vivo Using Novel Antisense Therapy
Zol Kryger MD · Northwestern University
Refinements in Targeted Reinnervation and its Effect on Neuroma Formation
Jason Ko MD, MBA · Northwestern University