July 2020

The Knights Templar Eye Foundation is committed to supporting research that can help launch the careers of clinical and basic researchers focused on the prevention and cure of potentially blinding diseases in infants and children.

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July 2020

This Pediatric Ophthalmology Career Starter Research Grant is one of the many ways that KTEF supports research and help launch the careers of clinical and basic researchers focused on the prevention and cure of potentially blinding diseases in infants and children. 

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May 2020

Dr. Deepti Anand, post-doctoral researcher in Dr. Salil Lachke's laboratory, has been awarded a 1-year Career Starter Grant for $70,000 in Pediatric Ophthalmology from Knights Templar Eye Foundation (KTEF).  Dr. Anand was among just 22 scientists across the United States to receive this grant in 2020.

University of Delaware Department of Biological Sciences / Read Full Article

 

 

April 2020

The Knights Templar Eye Foundation is committed to support research that can help launch the careers of clinical or basic researchers committed to the understanding, prevention and cure of vision threatening diseases in infants and children. They support clinical or basic research on conditions that can advance treatment or prevention.

UCI Center for Translational Vision Research / Read Full Article

 

 

March 2020

Being selected to receive the Knights Templar Career-Starter Research Grant is a tremendous honor. These funds will allow me to investigate a specific pathway in the eye that will hopefully begin to uncover how we can better prevent blinding diseases in children, all while working towards becoming an independent investigator.
- Philip Mzyk, PhD

University of Wisconsin Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences / Read Full Article

 

 

October 2019

The Knights Templar Eye Foundation, incorporated in 1956, is a charity sponsored by the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar. The Foundation seeks to improve vision through research, education, and supporting access to care to those in need.

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June 2019

Klemens Engelberg, a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Boston College Professor of Biology Marc-Jan Gubbels, has received a $65,000 grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation to study Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that infects nearly a third of the world’s population and can complicate pregnancies and lead to eye disease and blindness.

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May 2019

Oliver Voecking, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Kentucky Department of Biology in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, recently received a Knights Templar Eye Foundation Career-Starter Grant for his retinal research with zebrafish.

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February 2019

[Apl.de.ap] gave special thanks to the Knights Templar Eye Foundation Inc., CFC, WesternUnion.com, Alexis Louisa Quiza (ALQ) Foundation, Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology Department of JBLMRH, and City of San Fernando Mayor Edwin Santiago.

Nicole Renee David / Read Full Article

 

 

January 2019

The research in mice could advance understanding and treatment of human diseases such as autism spectrum disorders and stroke.

Kim Thurler / Read Full Article