CBC News – Health – J.K. Rowling donates $16M for MS research
CBC News – Health – J.K. Rowling donates $16M for MS research
Author J.K. Rowling has donated the equivalent of $16.4 million Cdn to help set up a centre to research multiple sclerosis, the disease that led to the death of her mother.
The creator of boy wizard Harry Potter said Tuesday that the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, named after her mother, will be based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. It will also study other degenerative neurological conditions, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, seen in 2008, says she ‘cannot think of anything more important, or of more lasting value, than to help the university attract world-class minds in the field of neuroregeneration.’ (Louis Lanzano/Associated Press)Rowling said she hopes the clinic will become “a world centre for excellence in the field of regenerative neurology.”
The university said Rowling’s gift is the largest single donation it has received.