Pharmacology department was established in 1951. provides regular teaching input in the system-based curriculum. It offers courses including Pharmacology, Drug Toxicology, Pharmacology of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacy Therapeutic, Neurobiology and Clinical Pharmacokinetics to undergraduate students in major of medicine, nursing, pharmaceutical science, medical laboratory sciences and medical imagine. It also runs courses for poststudents, such as Medical Experimental Zoology and Anesthetic Pharmacology. As an important part of medical school, pharmacology department always pay the most attention to teaching, make great effort to update teaching content and improve teaching method. As a result, the department has attained a lot of rewards in teaching quanlity, also won high praise from domestic and oversea students.
Pharmacology department also conducts research and provides scientific services. The current research programs include neuropharmacology, immunopharmacology, cardiovascular pharmacology, tumor pharmacology, endocrine pharmacology and pharmacokinetics. It attains the State Natural Sciences Foundation 1 item, and other levels of foundation 8 items. By cooperation with local pharmaceutical industry, the department also take an active part in research and development of new drugs, and involved in the R&D of Terbinafine, Butenafine, Cranial nerve element and some Chinese patent medicine.
