Mireille Gingras, Lady Gillings, (born 1962) is a US-based Canadian neurobiologist and

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. She founded HUYA Bioscience International, a

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in 2004, and is the

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, company's CEO and Executive Chair. The company has offices in

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, 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 Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...

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, Gillings earned her PhD from

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...

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

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, in addition to her native French.

Personal life

In 2012, she married

Dennis Gillings Sir Dennis Barry Gillings (born 25 April 1944) is an American-based British billionaire statistician and entrepreneur, the founder and former chairman of Quintiles Transnational, a clinical research company, headquartered in Durham, North Caro ...

in Hawaii.

References

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