
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. “But we never thought back then that New Haven would be our home.”Nonetheless, New Haven has remained at the core of their lives ever since...
Slow readers, creative thinkers: gift will spur dyslexia studies

Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine and an internationally recognized authority...
New faculty prize will recognize superb patient care

The medical school has announced the creation of the David J. Leffell Prize for Clinical Excellence, an annual award...

Gene-hunters search the world for treatments
Genetic disease research is a global enterprise in the post-genomic era

On a quest to decipher how a complex brain arises from a single cell


