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Mireille Gillings
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Mireille Gillings
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| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Occupation | neurobiologist and entrepreneur |
| Spouse(s) | Sir Dennis Gillings (m. 2012) |
Mireille Gingras Gillings, (born 1962) is a US-based Canadian neurobiologist and entrepreneur. She founded HUYA Bioscience International, a biotech consulting firm in 2004, and is the San Diego, California, company's CEO and Executive Chair. The company has offices in Pudong, Shanghai, China.
In 2010, Gillings' interest in China as a source of "research-intensive, expensive-to-develop medicines that are the stuff of patents and high profit margins" attracted the interest of Fortune magazine.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Gillings earned her PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Bordeaux University in France and The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. She received her bachelor's degree from Montréal's Concordia University.
Also one of the founders of MIR3, she is a "serial entrepreneur", as she has described herself. Gillings is at least functional in several languages, including Mandarin, in addition to her native French.
Philanthropy
In 2019 the French Government awarded Dr. Gillings its highest national award, the Knight of the Legion of Honor, in recognition of her contributions to neuroscience, entrepreneurship and philanthropy.
Personal life
In 2012, she married Dennis Gillings in Hawaii.
