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Lady Mireille and Sir Dennis Gillings Global Public Health Fellowship

Lady Mireille & Sir Dennis Gillings
Global Public Health Fellowship

Money, Management, Medicine

The Lady Mireille and Sir Dennis Gillings Global Public Health Fellowship is a prestigious, two-year, Paris-based postdoctoral program at the Institut Pasteur designed to train the next generation of global public health leaders.

Rooted in Lady Mireille Gillings’ philosophy of the “3 Ms” — money, management, and medicine — the Fellowship recognizes that scientific excellence alone is not enough to drive global health impact. Lasting progress requires leaders who can conduct world-class research, manage complex institutions, and mobilize resources to translate discovery into real-world solutions.

Fellows are embedded in labs of excellence at the Institut Pasteur, while simultaneously receiving business and leadership training through top global business schools. This integrated approach prepares Fellows to operate effectively at the intersection of science, policy, and implementation.

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The Fellowshipʼs Visionary Model

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Money

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Financial literacy, fundraising, and resource-mobilization skills essential for scaling innovation sustainably..

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Management

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Leadership, strategy, & operational training to
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Medicine

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Rigorous, cutting-edge research conducted in leading Institut Pasteur laboratories aligned with the Pasteur 2030 strategy.

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Fellowship Experience

[text-with-icon icon_type=”image_icon” icon_image=”1082″]Two-year funded postdoctoral appointment at the Institut
Pasteur in Paris[/text-with-icon][text-with-icon icon_type=”image_icon” icon_image=”1082″]Competitive salary and benefits, with supplemental funding
to support international living and travel[/text-with-icon][text-with-icon icon_type=”image_icon” icon_image=”1082″]Access to business & leadership coursework through
partner institutions including Concordia’s John Molson School of Business, University of Cambridge, University of North Carolina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and University of Oxford.[/text-with-icon][text-with-icon icon_type=”image_icon” icon_image=”1082″]Mentorship from leading scientists within the Institut Pasteur
and its international network[/text-with-icon][text-with-icon icon_type=”image_icon” icon_image=”1082″]Opportunities to engage with global health leaders, policymakers,
and interdisciplinary experts[/text-with-icon]
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About Lady M

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Lady Mireille Gillings, PhD, Hon DSc

[nectar_responsive_text inherited_font_style=”default” text_direction=”default”]Lady Mireille is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice Chair of HUYABIO International and has grown this privately held company to become the leader in accelerating the global development of novel biopharmaceutical product opportunities originating in China enabling faster, more cost-effective, and lower risk drug development in international markets. Through this model, HIYASTA a drug for the treatment of lymphoma was developed and commercialized, in less than 6 years for the Japanese market.

A visionary leader with more than 25 years of proven scientific, clinical, and operational expertise and leadership in the industry she has also made significant contributions to neurological and neurodegenerative disease research including a focus on neuroactive steroids.[/nectar_responsive_text]

[nectar_responsive_text inherited_font_style=”default” text_direction=”default”]She was the first woman to be appointed to the Board of Quintiles, post privatization, now IQVIA, a Fortune 500 company; she is Co-founder and non Executive Vice Chair of GHO Capital, a European private equity fund specializing in global health opportunities; serves on the Institut Pasteur US Board and is President of GF Management

Among the many honors she has received the French Government awarded Lady Mireille, the Knight of the Legion of Honor. She has been bestowed an Honorary degree by the University of Exeter in 2017, and by Concordia University in 2022, for her business, scientific and philanthropic achievements. The UK Sunday Times has twice named her as one of the top 10 women entrepreneurs.

Educated in Canada, the Netherlands, France, and the USA she has a PhD from Radboud University, Nijmegen and post-doctoral fellowships at Bordeaux University and Scripps Institute. Lady Mireille is fluent in English, Dutch, French and Spanish.[/nectar_responsive_text]

Featured Fellow

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Imge Ozugergin

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[/nectar_responsive_text][nectar_responsive_text inherited_font_style=”default” text_direction=”default”]Imge Ozugergin, PhD (Concordia University), is a Lady Mireille and Sir Dennis Gillings Global Public Health Fellow conducting pioneering research at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Her work focuses on cytokinesis, the final physical step of cell division, and how its disruption contributes to glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive and lethal forms of brain cancer.

[/nectar_responsive_text][nectar_responsive_text inherited_font_style=”default” text_direction=”default”]At the Institut Pasteur, Imge uses advanced live-cell imaging and interdisciplinary approaches to uncover how glioblastoma cells divide, fail to divide, and adapt under physical constraints within the brain. Her findings have revealed unexpected patterns in cancer cell behavior, opening new avenues for understanding tumor progression and identifying potential therapeutic vulnerabilities.[/nectar_responsive_text]

[nectar_responsive_text inherited_font_style=”default” text_direction=”default”]A distinctive feature of Imge’s research is its interdisciplinary and collaborative nature, bridging cancer biology, cell mechanics, advanced microscopy, and experimental tool design. The environment at the Institut Pasteur — and the structure of the Fellowship — made this work possible in ways that would not have been feasible elsewhere.[/nectar_responsive_text][nectar_responsive_text inherited_font_style=”default” text_direction=”default”]“It’s difficult to come up with a proper way to say thank you to Lady M, because where I am now would not have happened without her or the Fellowship. It’s had a profound effect on my personal life — and scientifically, this project would not have happened anywhere else. The collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of this work is once-in-a-lifetime.”[/nectar_responsive_text][nectar_responsive_text inherited_font_style=”default” text_direction=”default”]Beyond her scientific achievements, Imge’s experience reflects the Fellowship’s deeper impact. As a scientist and a mother, she has spoken openly about how the Fellowship provided the stability, flexibility, and institutional support needed to pursue ambitious research while building a life in a new country. She describes this period as one of renewed purpose — both personally and professionally.

Imge’s trajectory exemplifies the Fellowship in practice: rigorous science, the ability to operate across disciplines and institutions, and the structural support required to sustain innovation and talent. Her work underscores how targeted investment in people — not just projects — can unlock extraordinary scientific and human potential.[/nectar_responsive_text]

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Apply

[nectar_responsive_text inherited_font_style=”default” text_direction=”default” link_href=”https://pasteurfoundation.org/call-for-proposals-lady-mireille-and-sir-dennis-gillings-global-public-health-fellowship/”]The Lady Mireille and Sir Dennis Gillings Global Public Health Fellowship is open to outstanding PhD graduates from University of Cambridge, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Concordia University, who graduated within two years of the application deadline.

Applications are now open until June 1, 2026. Click here to learn more and submit your proposal.[/nectar_responsive_text]

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