Lawrence Kruger

passed away on July 12 in Los Angeles at age 93. His long career in pain-related research was spent entirely at UCLA, where it began in 1958 and where he served on the faculty as a professor of Anatomy, Neurobiology and Anesthesiology. His long career at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine and Brain Research Institute as Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus and held a joint appointment in the Department of Anesthesiology for several decades, serving as an advisor to the department's pain clinic. He was among the founding members of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and the Society for Neuroscience. Established in his honor, the Lawrence Kruger Undergraduate Scholarship supports neuroscience research.
Born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he earned his PhD at Yale, and settled in Los Angeles. An accomplished cellist, his passion for music and the arts led to his involvement in the development of the Performing Arts program at UCLA. More recently he spent a year at the Getty Center as a Resident Scholar.
He is survived by his wife, Virginia (Ginny), daughters Erika (White) and Paula (Henson) and three grandchildren.