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.
The Impact of Preoperative Mammography on Reduction Mammoplasty Episode of Care
Erika Sears MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
The Impact of Surgery in Craniosynostosis Using ERPs
Anup Patel MD · Yale University
The Influence of Acellular Dermal Matrix On Peri-Prosthetic Breast Niche
Ruth Tevlin MD · Stanford University
The Influence of Innervation on Tissue Engineered Muscle Fiber Type
Melissa Melvin MD · University of Michigan
The Influence of the Fetal Keratinocyte in Scarless Repair
Anuja Antony MD, MPH, FACS · Stanford University
The International Breast Reconstruction Outcome Consortium
Edwin Wilkins MD · University of Michigan
The Mechanism of eNOS Intervention in I/R Injury
Wei Wang MD · University of Nevada
The Mechanisms of FK-506 Mediated Enhanced Nerve Regeneration
Philip Johnson PhD · Washington University in St. Louis
The Missing Perspective: Describing the Plastic Surgery Applicant's Experience
Jesse Taylor MD · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Mother Infant Lactation Questionnaire (MILQ)
Brian Labow MD · Children's Hospital Boston