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.
The Effect of Polymer-Bound BMP-2 on MC3T3-E1 Mineralization
Jay Calvert MD · Southern California Institute for Research and Education
The Effect of Traction on Neuroma Formation
Brent Ponce · University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Effects of Carbamylated Erythropoietin on Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Paul Afrooz MD · University of Pittsburgh
The effects of FK506 on Schwann cell populations during nerve regeneration
Alison Snyder-Warwick MD · Washington University in St.Louis
The Effects of Graded Densities of Lipoaspirate on Fat Graft
Alexes Hazen MD · New York University Medical Center
The Effects of Inflammatory Mediators on Capsular Contracture in the Mouse Model
Howard Langstein MD · University of Rochester
The Effects of Modality Matching on Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Thomas Tung MD · Washington University
The Effects of Nicotine Exposure on Cranial Suture Stem Cells
James Cray PhD · Medical University of South Carolina
The Impact of Blood Glucose Control on Symptomatic Neuroma Formation
Edward Lee MD · Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
The Impact of Chest Wall Irradiation on Long-Term Patient Satisfaction and Health-Related Quality of Life Following Tissue Expander/Implant Reconstruction
Peter Cordeiro MD, FACS · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center