JK Rowling Makes Massive Donation To New MS Facility

Harry Potter writer JK Rowling has donated US$15 million to a multiple sclerosis charity in the name of her mother.

“I have supported research into the cause and treatment of multiple sclerosis for many years now – but when I first saw the proposal for this clinic, I knew that I had found a project more exciting, more innovative, and, I believe, more likely to succeed in unravelling the mysteries of multiple sclerosis than any other I had read about or been asked to fund,” she said. "I have just turned 45, the age at which my mother, Anne, died of complications related to her MS.

“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.”

The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic will be based at the University of Edinburgh.