Roz Milstein Meyer and her husband Jerry are profiled in the March-April issue of Medicine@Yale, the Medical School’s newsletter, on the occasion of their recent gift for melanoma research:
“Couple with a cause:
“$10 million gift will drive research, trials of new skin cancer treatments
“Roz Milstein and Jerry Meyer met in October 1971 in the Cross Campus Library at Yale. He was a fourth-year medical student. She was starting a doctorate in clinical psychology. Both were interested in community issues, and in making society a better place. . . .
“‘We talked for five hours and found we shared a tremendous amount,’ Jerome H. Meyer, M.D., recalls.”
“After marrying the following May, he began a residency in psychiatry and went on to practice in the city as a psychoanalyst. She finished her training and became a practicing psychologist, working with individuals and couples. . . . Now the Meyers are turning their attention to health care and medical research. With a gift of $10 million to the School of Medicine, they are helping to expand the school’s research and treatment programs in melanoma, an often fatal skin cancer that has affected family members on both sides.
‘Melanoma is one of the fastest growing and most deadly forms of cancer, and there are few options for people with advanced melanoma,’ says Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Ph.D. ‘We’d like to see new treatments — effective treatments — developed, as well as new understanding of how cancer works.'”
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