Marlena Kruger

Marlena Cathorina Kruger is a South African-New Zealand medical researcher and academic. She is currently a full professor of nutritional physiology at the Massey University.
Academic career.
After a 1986 PhD titled " 'The effect of unsaturated fatty acids and related compounds on calcium transport in sarcoplasmic reticulum' " at the Medical University of Southern Africa, Kruger worked at the University of Texas at Austin and University of Pretoria before she moved to the Massey University in 2000, rising to full professor.
Kruger is active in Zontia and was a finalist in the 2017 Westpac Women of Influence Awards.