Romneys Provide Lead Gift for Brain Research Center
October 15, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
Ann Romney, the wife of 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is spearheading a $50-million fundraising effort to establish a center for the study of neurological diseases at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, The Boston Globe and the Associated Press report. Ms. Romney said the couple is seeding the facility with a “substantial gift,” the amount of which was not disclosed.
The Ann Romney Center for Neurological Diseases will seek treatments and cures for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, brain tumors, and multiple sclerosis, with which Ms. Romney was diagnosed in 1998. The center is slated to open in a new building in 2016 and hire dozens more doctors and scientists through the fundraising campaign.
