Medicinal cannabis research gets $33m from grandparents of girl with epilepsy

Donation from Barry and Joy Lambert made 'not only for benefit of those with childhood epilepsy, like our Katelyn, but for wide range of other conditions'

The grandparents of three-year-old girl with a rare form of epilepsy have made a $33.7m donation to the University of Sydney to fund medicinal cannabis research.

Announcing their donation at the university on Friday, Barry and Joy Lambert said international research suggested their granddaughter Katelyn, who suffers hundreds of seizures each day, may benefit from medicinal cannabis treatment.