Harry Potter Author Donates Millions to Multiple Sclerosis Research
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on September 6th, 2010 in Extras, In The News, Linked Articles.
Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling recently donated £10,000,000 to multiple sclerosis (MS) research — that translates into more than $15 million U.S. dollars.
The money will go to the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic at Edinburgh University which was named for Ms. Rowling’s late mother. The clinic plans to “focus on patient-based studies to help find treatments that could slow progression of the disease, working towards the eventual aim of stopping and reversing it.”
The BBC quotes the author as saying, “I have just turned 45, the age at which my mother, Anne, died of complications related to her MS…
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Harry Potter Author Donates Millions to Multiple Sclerosis Research
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