Pat Quinn with his wife, Anne. He was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2014A co-founder of the Ice Bucket Challenge, a $220 million social media fundraising phenomenon, has died of the neurological disease whose treatment he helped to accelerate. Pat Quinn, of New York, inspired millions of people worldwide to tip buckets of iced water over their heads to raise money for research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease and motor neurone disease, in 2014. Quinn had ALS diagnosed in 2013, just before his 30th birthday. He founded the challenge with Pete Frates and Anthony Senerchia, fellow ALS

Source: The Times November 24, 2020 00:00 UTC