In 1990 Judy Goldman was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare blood and bone cancer. This disease, which kills on average within three years of diagnosis, changed Judy and George Goldman's lives forever.

In their forty-nine years together, raising four children and building a highly successful merchant banking and private investment firm, Judy and George faced their share of personal and professional battles. But multiple myeloma posed a very different kind of struggle, one that generated many needs that could not be satisfied by conventional medicine alone. Thanks to a combination of early detection, excellent medical care, non-traditional medical techniques and Judy's courage, her disease has been kept in remission for more than a decade.

While traveling down the long road to survival, Judy and George transformed their decades of business experience into philanthropic activism by establishing the Goldman Philanthropic Partnerships (formerly the Judith and George Goldman Foundation Fighting Catastrophic Diseases). They now have dedicated their lives to finding cures for cancer and other catastrophic diseases.