Bruce Furie ’66

Bruce died Nov. 22, 2025, after a long illness.

Bruce came to Princeton from Milburn (N.J.) High School, where he played football, was in the concert band, and edited the school newspaper. At Princeton, he majored in biochemistry, belonged to Dial Lodge, played in the concert band, and was president of the Yacht Club. In his senior year, he married Barbara Cantor *65.

Following graduation, Bruce and Barbara enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his medical degree and she completed her doctorate in chemistry.

Bruce specialized in hematology and oncology. Following a residency at Penn, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the NIH. In collaboration with Barbara, he established a joint laboratory at New England Medical Center and Tufts University Medical School. He later moved to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as director of the Cancer Center.

He was recognized internationally as a leader in research, having published hundreds of articles in leading medical journals and served on the editorial boards of prominent medical publications. The International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis hailed his “lifetime of service.”

Classmates benefited first-hand from his knowledge and counsel, both informally and through the healthy aging initiative, in which he played a leading role.

Bruce is survived by Barbara and sons Eric ’95 and Gregg ’97, to whom the class extends its condolences.