Description

The Knights Templar Eye Foundation’s Competitive Renewal Grants provide one additional year of support for the original Career Starter investigator and project. The program supports individual career development and translational research in children’s eye diseases, helping investigators generate evidence to secure independent funding as clinical or basic science researchers.

Renewal proposals must build on data generated during the Career Starter Grant and propose new aims that logically extend the original work. They cannot introduce a new research topic or support a different investigator. The program is not intended to provide long-term project support, simply fund a clinical pediatric ophthalmology fellowship, or add research personnel to a mentor’s laboratory.