JK Rowling has donated £10 million ($15.5 million) in order to start up a new Multiple Sclerosis (MS) clinic at the University of Edinburgh. The clinic, which will be named The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic after her mother who died from complications of MS, will conduct research for the disease. It will also research other diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntingdon’s.
Jo made a statement about the clinic earlier today.
“I have just turned 45, the age at which my mother, Anne, died of complications related to her MS,” Rowling said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I know that she would rather have had her name on this clinic than on any statue, flower garden or commemorative plaque, so this donation is on her behalf, too; and in gratitude for everything she gave me in her far-too-short life.”
“I cannot think of anything more important, or of more lasting value, than to help the university attract world-class minds in the field on neuroregeneration, to build on its long and illustrious history of medical research and, ultimately, to seek a cure for a very Scottish disease,” Rowling said.
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