JK Rowling Donates 10 Million Pounds to MS Charity

JK Rowling’s mother died at the young age of 45 due to complications related to MS. This compelled the Harry Potter author to do something to “give something back” to the city of Edinburgh. She funded the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic at Edinburgh University. This facility will focus on other degenerative conditions as well, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and Motor Neurone Disease. Rowling said, “I have just turned 45, the age at which my mother, Anne, died of complications related to her MS. She also explained why she choose EU, saying that the “clinic was more exciting, more innovate and more likely to unravel the mysteries of MS than any other project she had been asked to fund.”

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