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 Orbital Index: Prediction of Delayed Enophthalmos in Orbital Floor Fractures
Edward Davidson MD · Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals
The Pathophysiology of Adolescent Macromastia and Gynecomastia
Branislav Kollar MD · Children's Hospital Boston
The Pathophysiology of Adolescent Macromastia and Gynecomastia
Brian Labow MD · Children's Hospital Boston
The Role and Mechanism of NGF Signaling in Corneal Epithelial Renewal
Gregory Borschel MD · Indiana University
The Role of Jagged-1 in Angiogenesis of Infantile Hemangiomas
June Wu MD · Columbia University Medical Center
The Role of Leptin in Calciphylaxis
Peter Broer MD · Yale University
The Role of Lymphatic System in Peripheral Nerve Recovery
Carolyn De La Cruz MD · University of Pittsburgh
The Role of Notch Signaling in Adipocyte Derived Stem Cells
Christopher Chambers PhD · Southern Illinois University
The Role of RANK Signaling in Cranial Suture Homeostasis
Russell Reid MD, PhD · The University of Chicago
The Role of Skin Adnexal Immune Privilege in Tolerance Induction to Limb Transplants
Vijay Gorantia MD · University of Pittsburgh