Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting - Pediatric Ophthalmology Grant Review 2023

Annually the Knights Templar Eye Foundation holds a meeting mid-March, this year it was held in Grapevine, Texas with the officers and trustees of the Foundation along with fourteen 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 up to a $90,000 grant.

For the past two years this annual meeting has been held through ZOOM, this year was a welcome change to be in person and discuss in person.

The meeting started at 8:30am CST and concluded at 4:30pm CST – being in person allowed more dialog as our SAC doctors had to review in detail thirty-seven Career Starter Grants and nine Competitive Renewal Grants.

At the end of the review process thirty Competitive Renewal & Career Starter grants for a total of $2,699,449.00 were recommended by the SAC Committee and later approved by the KTEF officers.

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