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Radboud University Nijmegen.
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Mireille Gingras
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She founded HUYA Bioscience International, a biotech consulting firm in 2004, and is the San Diego, California company"s President and Chief Executive Officer. 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. Gingras earned her Doctor of Philosophy from Radboud University Nijmegen and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Bordeaux University in France and The Scripps Research Institute in Louisiana Jolla, California.
She received her bachelor of arts 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.
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