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.
Tissue Derived Stem Cells and Radiation Injury
Babak Mehrara MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Tissue engineered 3-D ear cartilage construct
Alan Widgerow MD · University of California, Irvine
Tissue Engineered Biocompatible Tendon/Ligament-Bone Constructs
Simon Farnebo MD, PhD · Stanford University
Tissue Engineered Bone in a Prefabricated Capsular Flap
Michael Neumeister MD, FRCSC, FACS · Southern Illinois University
Tissue Engineered Recellularized Small Diameter Vascaular Grafts
Gregory Borschel MD · University of Michigan
Tissue Engineering of Incisional Hernia Repair Using Acellular Myofascial Construct
Mazen Harake MD · University of Michigan
Tissue-Engineered Lymph Node Transplantation for the Treatment of Lymphedema
Catherine Ly MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Tolerance Induction to Composite Tissue Allotransplantation
Xin Xiao Zheng MD · University of Pittsburgh
Topical Antibiotic Elution in a Collagen Rich Hydrogel for Chronic Wound Healing
Paige Fox MD, PhD · Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research
Transfected Adipose Stem Cells for Peripheral Nerve Repair
Wesley Sivak MD, PhD · University of Pittsburgh