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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Focus Area

Grants Funded

Research Abstracts

Defining Timing and Developing Treatment for Heterotopic Ossification

Degradable Orthopedic Devices to Modulate Healing

Delivery of miR through Biodegradable Scaffolds

Dendritic Cell Induced Tolerance in Rat Composite Allograft

Determining the Mechanism of Arteriovenous Malformation

Determining the Mechanism of Pediatric Capillary Malformation

Determining the Mechanism of Scarless Wound Healing

Determining the potential of adipose-derived stem cells

Developing the DSI for Re-establishing Sensory Feedback in Peripheral Afferents

Developing the TRANS-Q to Measure Outcomes for Gender-Affirming Treatment