Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting - Pediatric Ophthalmology Grant Review 2021

Annually the Knights Templar Eye Foundation holds a meeting mid-March in Dallas with the officers and trustees of the Foundation with ten doctors specializing in pediatric ophthalmology from many leading hospitals and research institutions throughout the country to review the applications and recommend which applications based on the merits of the proposal should be funded with a grant.

Annually this meeting takes place in person but because of the evolving COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic this is the second year this meeting has been held through ZOOM.

The meeting started at 9:30am CST and concluded at 4:00pm CST – our conference allowed everybody to view and share our PC screen so they could track the scoring of grants as they were recorded after each grant was discussed in detail.

Our meeting ended with 28 total Competitive Renewal & Career Starter grants for a total of $1,957,897 that was recommended by the SAC doctors and later that night approved by the KTEF SAC committee.

Check Presentations / Website Update

Because of the pandemic we are sorry to say that will not be making personal presentations again this year of the checks, but instead will be mailing the checks directly to the grant recipients. Our website https://www.ktef.org/grants has a complete list of the grants that were approved along with the specific research.