Mireille Gingras
| Mireille Gingras | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 (age 45–46) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | |
| Occupation | neurobiologist and entrepreneur |
| Spouse(s) | Dennis Gillings (m. 2012) |
Mireille A. Gingras (born 1971) 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 President and CEO. The company has offices in Pudong, Shanghai, China.
In 2010 Gingras's 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, Gingras 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. Gingras is at least functional in several languages, including Mandarin, in addition to her native French.
Gingras has articulated five points of advice for women who want to succeed in biotechnology as a male-dominated profession:
In 2012, she married Dennis Gillings in Hawaii.
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