JKR donates £15m to MS research centre

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What a terrible person she is:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-49661840

Just wondering how the trans activists are going to spin this to make it all about them. I expect they'll find a way.

crikey

she is both very rich and very generous isn't she?

Prof Chandran, director of the clinic, said: "Our research is shaped by listening to, and involving, individuals who are living with these tough conditions.

"The Anne Rowling Clinic's vision is to offer everyone with MS or other neurodegenerative diseases, such as MND, the opportunity to participate in a suite of clinical studies and trials.

"This incredibly far-sighted and generous donation will unlock the potential of personalised medicine for people with MS in Scotland and further afield."

University vice chancellor Prof Peter Mathieson said they were "immensely honoured".

"This inspiring donation will fund a whole new generation of researchers who are focused on discovering and delivering better treatments and therapies for patients," he added.

She's on a roll isn't she. Good on you Jo.

No doubt they'll say something, but she is such a generous person. Go JK

I ❤️ JKR

Love JKR.

Surely, it'd be impossible to put a negative spin on this news?

Just when I thought I couldn't love her more. What a woman. My mum has MS. It's a terrible disease and has taken so much from her.

It must drive her critics nuts that she is so nice and generous and good. And too rich for them to affect her income.

What a bigot she is.

(Not really)

JKR walks the walk rather than just talks the talk. I bloody love her.

To be accurate, another £15 million, as she established it with £10 million originally.

She's a truly admirable woman who made her fortune through sheer creativity and imagination and now spends it wisely and well.

Wow, she is some woman. I would love to see her get the highest honours in the land.

Yeah well it's named after her MOTHER, which is just another way she can emphasise how TW can't be mothers so she's obviously a transphobe. Or something.

Just waiting to hear how she’s ONLY doing it to spite trans people or something.

What a truly incredible WOMAN she is

That's great, but you do realise that's a 2019 news article? She's probably given them another £25M since then...

Sad her Mother died very young.

Just wondering how the trans activists are going to spin this to make it all about them. I expect they'll find a way.

Women (the real ones) are twice as likely to get a diagnosis of MS, so there's that I suppose....!

The research centre is in the University of Edinburgh, so that could trigger the little darlings after the events of last week.

I have MS. I am very grateful that Jo Rowling exists. For this and her GC activity.

I love the Twitter comments where they are going to cancel her and make her poor.

The Anne Rowling centre has been doing research into long Covid, too: www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/scottish-independence-nicola-sturgeon-is-trolling-scotland-by-saving-millions-for-a-second-independence-referendum-that-councils-and-long-covid-sufferers-desperately-need-susan-dalgety-3719299

Oh no! I'm so sorry - it popped up in my feed this morning and I didn't check the date. Assumed it was a new article.

Never mind - good to be reminded of what an all-round excellent person JKR is.

Easy done OP not to worry. 10m in 2010 another 15m in 2019 as pp poster said she may well have given more again since then.

She really should.

As one friend has MS and another MND, it's good to know people like JKR exist. She does so much good. Imagine having been able to create something that gives such joy, and earns so much that she's been able to hugely impact several different fields.