Mireille Gillings
Lady Mireille Gingras Gillings (born 1963) 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. Gillings has articulated five points of advice for women who want to succeed in biotechnology as a male-dominated profession: Personal life. In 2012, she married Dennis Gillings in Hawaii.