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.Welcome Message from CEO and founder Mireille Gillings, PhD (accessed 6 November 2010)
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. The quotation appears on p. 50.
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,HUYA profile on Bloomberg Business Week (accessed 6 November 2010); see also the MIR3 site she is a "serial entrepreneur", as she has described herself. The article explains that the name HUYA comes from the "Chinese abbreviations for Shanghai (Hù) and Asia (Yà)"; the name is pronounced in English like WHO YA with equal stress on both syllables (/'hu·'ja/). Gillings is at least functional in several languages, including Mandarin, in addition to her native French.
Personal life In 2012, she married Dennis Gillings in Hawaii.
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