JK Rowling donated £10million to fund a multiple sclerosis clinic named after her mother. The Harry Potter author expressed hope that the new research facility would attract "world-class minds" to find cures.

Rowling had chosen Edinburgh as the home of The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic as her way of "giving something back" to the city.

"Edinburgh's given me so very much that I've been looking for a way to give something meaningful back to it," Rowling explained.

The clinic will be run by Edinburgh University. It will be based in complex next to the Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary.The 45-year-old author had been supporting multiple sclerosis (MS) charities since 1990. Her mother Anne died of the disease after an 11-years of being inflicted with MS.

"The clinic will be mould-breaking in the way it places patients at the heart of research and treatment," said Rowling. "While multiple sclerosis will be at the heart of the initiative, people with the other diseases are likely to benefit from discoveries made here."

Rowling is a patron of the MS Society of Scotland, but she left the charity in April claiming it was split by an internal row.

Rowling lives in Scotland and is famously known for her Harry Potter books authorship. Her attachment t to Edinburgh is explained by her claims to have started writing the series in Edinburgh cafes in the 1990s.