Michelle Haber (born 18 October 1956) is an Australian cancer researcher. Haber is an Australian scientist in the field of childhood cancer research. She serves as the Executive Director of Children's Cancer Institute and is a professor at the School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales. She is known for her discoveries in the area of chemotherapy resistance in neuroblastoma and for translating these discoveries into new therapeutics that are currently in clinical trials. Education Haber attended Mount Scopus Memorial College in Melbourne and, when her family moved to Sydney, attended Moriah College, graduating in 1973. She completed a clinical psychology degree at University of New South Wales and was awarded a University Medal. She obtained her PhD from the School of Pathology at the University of New South Wales in 1984 - her thesis was entitled Structural analysis by BD-cellulose chromatography of mammalian DNA during repair, replication and degradation. She was awarded a Doctor of Science honoris causa by the University of New South Wales in 2008. Career In 1982, during her PhD studies, Haber spent three months as Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Molecular Virology in Hadassah Medical Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her first postdoctoral position was as at Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research Unit, a precursor to Children's Cancer Institute then located at the Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital, Randwick. Having joined as a Staff Scientist in 1984, she was promoted to Senior Research Fellow in 1992, Principal Research Fellow in 1996, Director in 2000 and Executive Director in 2003. Haber also holds a conjoint appointment as Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. Under her leadership Children's Cancer Institute, now located in the UNSW Lowy Cancer Research Centre, has tripled in size and grown from a little known group to become the largest children’s cancer research facility in the region. Research Haber’s early studies were amongst the first characterizing the complex molecular mechanisms underlying therapy-related drug resistance. With her collaborators, she identified the relationship between high expression of multidrug transporter gene MRP1, and the malignant phenotype of neuroblastoma and poor clinical outcome. These studies provided the first definitive demonstration of clinical relevance of the MRP1 gene in solid tumours, resulting in a large international clinical study which confirmed the independent prognostic significance of MRP1 expression in neuroblastoma and established MRP1 inhibition as a