Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting - Pediatric Ophthalmology Grant Review 2022

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 some travel restrictions this is the third year this meeting has been held through ZOOM, currently we are scheduling to return to in person for 2023.

The meeting started at 9:30am CST and concluded at 4:30pm 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 twenty-two Competitive Renewal & Career Starter grants for a total of $1,533,025 that were recommended by the SAC doctors and later that night approved by the KTEF SAC committee.

Check Presentations / Website Update

Our website https://www.ktef.org/grants has a complete list of the grants that were approved along with the specific research.