Mireille Gillings

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.^[1][2]

Mireille Gillings
Mireille Gillings
Born	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Radboud University Nijmegen Bordeaux University The Scripps Research Institute Concordia University
Occupation(s)	neurobiologist and entrepreneur
Spouse	Sir Dennis Gillings (m. 2012)

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.^[3]

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.^[4]

Also one of the founders of MIR3,^[5] she is a "serial entrepreneur", as she has described herself.^[6] Gillings is at least functional in several languages, including Mandarin, in addition to her native French.^[7]

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.^[8]

References

1. Welcome Message from CEO and founder Mireille Gillings, PhD (accessed 6 November 2010)
2. Poh, Alissa (13 November 2008). . PharmaWeek. Archived from the original on 7 May 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
3. Powell, Bill (15 November 2010). "Biotech pioneers: How two unlikely partners plan to unleash China's young pharma industry". Fortune. Vol. 182, no. 8. pp. 49–50, 52. Retrieved 6 November 2010. The quotation appears on p. 50.
4. . Archived from the original on 10 May 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
5. HUYA profile on Bloomberg Business Week^{[dead link]} (accessed 6 November 2010); see also the MIR3 site
6. Dolgin, Elie (June 2009). . Scientist. Vol. 23, no. 6. p. 57. Archived from the original on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2010. 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/).
7. David, Gollaher; Gingras, Mirielle (9 February 2010). "HUYA Bioscience International". CHI: Advancing California Biomedical Research and Innovation. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
8. Gibson, Dale (7 September 2012). "Gillings remarries; new bride heads California pharma". www.bizjournals.com.