Newsfront‌ Texas KTEF Awards Grants To Baylor College Doctors
On Friday, July 27, 1990, Sir Knight Kenneth B. Fischer, Right Eminent Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Texas, and Sir Knight Kurt J. M. Swanda, State Chairman of the KTEF in Texas, were received by Dan B. Jones, M.D., a Sid Richardson Professor and chairman of the Cullen Eye Institute in Houston, Texas, for the presentation of four grants, totaling $79,125.00 to four doctors, research scientists of the Baylor College of Medicine. These awards have immense value to each of the investigators by providing unrestricted funds to develop pilot studies in blinding diseases of children. The product of their preliminary investigations will be the foundation for additional long-term studies and major independent funding. The ultimate goal, "to prevent blindness and improve vision in children," helps fulfill the mission of the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. Dr. Thomas W. Call, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research fellow under the direction of Joe G. Hollyfield, Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology, is attempting to determine how various proteins and other substances influence the development of structures within the human retina. His grant for this outstanding research was for $20,000. Dr. Steven S. Pittler, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research fellow under the direction of Wolfgang B. Baehr, Ph.D., is attempting to determine the various roles of proteins in
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