Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting - Pediatric Ophthalmology Grant Review 2024

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 thirteen 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.

The meeting started at 8:30am CST and concluded at 4:30pm CST - in person meetings allow more dialog as our SAC doctors reviewed in detail forty Career Starter Grants and nine Competitive Renewal Grants.

At the end of the review process thirty-two Competitive Renewal & Career Starter grants for a total of $2,876,396.00 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