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.

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Research Abstracts

Combining Human Pre-Adipocytes and Biological Scaffolds for Fat Engineering

Comparative Evaluation of Agents on Fibrosis and Scar Fibroblasts

Composite Dermal and Muscle Grafts for Closed-loop Neuroprosthetic Control

Composite Muscle & Dermal Constructs as a Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interface

Comprehensive Prevention Program for Breast Cancer Related Lymphedema

Computational Morphometric Image Prediction in Surgery

Conjoint Analysis and Internet Crowdsourcing in Plastic Surgery

Contribution of Merlin Inactivation in Facial Nerve Schwann Cell Regeneration

Contributions of the Immune Response After Nerve Injury to NMJ Reinnervation

Controlled Release of Adipogenic Factors to Enhance Fat Graft Ret