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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Grants Funded

Research Abstracts

Reversal of UV irradiation-induced skin injury with c-Jun siRNA

Reversibility of Age-Related Effects on Nerve Regeneration

Reversible Chemical Myotomy for Lateral Abdominal Wall Release

Role of Egr1 in Skeletal Muscle Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

Role of Innervation in the Metabolic Response of Skin to Injury

Role of Integrin-Dependent Crosstalk in Hypertrophic Scar Formation

Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Reepithelialization

Role of miR-193a-5p in Skin Growth Induced by Tissue Expansion

Role of MMP-9 in Wound Healing

Role of non-adherent Clonogenic ASCs on T-cell Immunomodulation