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.
Strategies for Repair of Infected Calvarial Bone Defects
Sanjay Naran MD · University of Pittsburgh
Study of the Relationship Between Breast Implants and Lymphoma
Garry Brody MD · USC/University of Southern California
Studying Breast Implant-Associated ALCL in Three-Dimensional Organotypic Platform
Jason Spector MD · Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Summer Plastic Surgery Research Programs: Establishing Equitable Opportunities
David Tran MD · New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Surface Myoelectric Control of Sensorimotor Function Using RPNIs
Amir Dehdashtian MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
Surgical Biomaterials as Substrates For Biofilm Formation
Eric Chien-Wei Liao MD, PhD · Harvard Medical School
Surgical Education to Enhance Patient-Centered Communication
Jeffrey Friedrich MD · University of Washington
Sustained Local Anti-TNF-alpha Delivery for Hypertrophic Scars
David Brown MD, PhD · Duke University
Sutural Distraction Osteogenesis for the Treatment of Cleft Palate Disease
Mirko Gilardino MD · Montreal Children's Hospital
Synthesis Of A Tissue Engineered Periosteum
Bjorn Schonmeyr MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center