J K Rowling gives money for multiple sclerosis research
Published: April 24, 2006
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has said she has given money to help set up a centre for research into the wasting disease multiple sclerosis.
The best-selling author did not say how much she had given toward the 2.5 million-pound (US$4 million) centre in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh.
“It means a great deal to me to be able to provide support for this much-needed research center,” Rowling said yesterday.
“It is an extremely exciting step forward in the ongoing battle to try to unlock the mysteries of MS and which will hopefully, one day, lead to a cure.”
Rowling’s own mother died of the disease at the age of 45, and the best-selling author is patron of the Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland.
Multiple sclerosis is a condition of the central nervous system that impairs the brain’s ability to transmit instructions to the muscles.
There are around 85,000 sufferers in Britain, about one in every 700 people.
The new facility will be housed at The Center for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University’s medical school.
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