Alex Richard-St-Hilaire was an MSc student in Bioinformatics at Université de Montréal. She joined the OMICS group in May 2017 as a summer intern, funded by CIHR. In the summer 2018, she has been awarded an IVADO scholarship to continue her project. She then continued as a MSc student in Bioinformatics. She worked on the population genetics of Cytochrome P450 genes and pseudogenes.

She is now a bioinformatician at CHU Ste-Justine, Montréal, Québec.