Our meeting ended with 27 total Competitive Renewal & Career Starter grants for a total of $1,874,463 that was recommended by the SAC doctors, later that night these were approved by the KTEF SAC committee.
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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Knights Templar Eye Foundation offices have implemented a policy of social distancing which allows our staff to continue the work of the foundation while ensuring the safety of our team and loved ones. For us this means a combination of working remotely along with rotating visits to the office, but for our donors nothing has changed. Please continue to send your donations to our office and our team will process them in a timely fashion. We wish you the best during this trying time, and thank you for your continued support of the Knights Templar Eye Foundation.
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This project aims to investigate the response of photoreceptors to high sugar conditions by testing the effect of photoreceptors exposed to high sugar on the retinal cells that are responsible for blood vessel growth and for maintaining blood vessel integrity and the goal is to help develop future treatments to prevent childhood retinal diseases.
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The worldwide shortage of donor corneas and postoperative complications present challenges to surgically treating children who are blind from CHED. Therefore, a clearer understanding of disease mechanisms that underlie CHED is needed in an effort to develop alternative treatments (e.g. gene based therapeutics) that will improve patient outcomes and decrease the dependence on donor cornea tissue.
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Dr Aaron Nagiel, featured in this article, from the Vision Center, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, received a Knights Templar Eye Foundation Starter Grant in 2018
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It is indeed a high honor to be addressing each of you today as the Chairman for the 52nd Annual Knights Templar Eye Foundation Voluntary Campaign! As Knights Templar, there are many great and wonderful things that we do; perhaps none more so than diligently working towards the end goal of the gift of sight. As Masons, we should always be searching for Light, and how exciting it is for us as Knights Templar to help bring Light to others through our gifts to the Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Inc.
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The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has awarded 95 travel grants this year to help student/trainee members attend the 2019 annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada, thanks to a grant to the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Inc. (KTEF)
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