Listed below are plastic surgery units which are actively engaged in research.
Cambridge
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Areas of research: SIAscopic assessment of melanomas and other skin tumours: validation of clinical applications; immediate breast reconstruction outcomes; microvascular free flap reconstructions - clinical
East Grinstead
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Areas of research: wound healing; tissue reconstruction
Edinburgh
St John's Hospital at Howden (no website)
Areas of research: HIV lipodystrophy; paediatric burns
Exeter
Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
Areas of research: soft tissue sarcoma; malignant melanoma; general plastic surgery
Hull
Hull & East Yorkshire Hospital NHS Trust
Areas of research: melanoma; hand surgery; head and neck surgery
Leicester
Lester Royal Infirmary
Areas of research: heat shock proteins; necrotising fasciitis; organisational clinical research; vascular; angiogenic disease
Liverpool
Mersey Regional Unit at Whiston Hospital
Areas of research: hands - tendon biomachanics and tendon imaging; burns
London
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
Areas of research: Dupuytren's disease; thumb IPJ anatomy; repair of flexor tendons zone I; Facing the World - Phd laboratory; cartilage tissue engineering
Mount Vernon Hospital
Areas of research: hand surgery (Dupuytren's, tendon healing, rheumatoid arthritis); facial palsy; skin cancer and prevention; wound healing and burns scarring
Royal London Hospital
Areas of research: keloid scars; major trauma and reconstruction techniques; post-burn reconstruction techniques
St George's Hospital
Areas of research: melanoma vaccines; translational research; molecular biology melanoma; cell senescence
The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust & Institute of Cancer Research
Areas of research: gene therapy;microvascular surgery
Norwich
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
Areas of research: SIA scope; perforator flaps; head & neck flaps
Oxford
Radcliffe Infirmary
Areas of research: craniofacial and limb genetics and developmental biology; tissue engineering; psychological aspects of disfigurement; biomedical engineering
