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.
Upper Extremity Biomechanics Following Breast Reconstruction
Daniel Lyons MD · University of Michigan, Section of Plastic Surgery
Use of [18F]FTC-146 PET/MRI in the Evaluation of Nerve Pain
Thomas Wilson · Stanford University
Use of Tranexamic Acid in Reduction Mammoplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Amy Yao MD · Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Utilizing Costal Cartilage Chondrocytes for Tissue Engineered Cartilage Construct
Miles Pfaff MD, MHS · The Regents of the University of California (Irvine)
Utilizing Double Negative T Regulatory Cells to Induce Tolerance
Dong Zhang · University of Pittsburgh
Utilizing Smart Phone Technology for Hand Surgical Education
Shaun Mendenhall MD · Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Validating a Web-Based Microsurgery Curriculum
Thomas Satterwhite MD · Stanford University
Validating SCAR-Q: A Patient-Reported Outcome Instrument for Scars
Natalia Ziolkowski MD, PhD · The Hospital for Sick Children
Validation of a novel model of Pfeiffer syndrome in zebrafish
Jennifer McGrath MD · Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Vascular Malformations: Investigation of Pubertal Hormone Expression
Reid Maclellan MD, MMSc · Children's Hospital Boston