Maxime Garcia holds a master's degree in bioinformatics. During 2008 he followed an internship at Technological Advances for Genomics and Clinics (TAGC), working on the TranscriptomeBrowser. He joined the Integrative Bioinformatics team at the Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille (CRCM) in march 2009 for his final internship. In november 2009, he begins a PhD on discovering biomarkers in breast cancer by interactome-transcriptome integration (ITI project). He his responsible for welcoming CRCM’s new students. He his also the webmaster of a student association (Hippo'Thèse) involved within his doctoral school (Ecole Doctorale des Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé).