Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timișoara

Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timișoara (Romanian: Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie „Victor Babeș” din Timișoara; abbreviated UMFT) is a state university in Timișoara. The university was founded on 30 December 1944 by decree of the then King of Romania Michael I. There are three faculties within UMFT: Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy. In 2011, UMFT was classified as an education and research university by the Ministry of Education. The university is named after Victor Babeș (1854–1926), the author of the first bacteriology treatise in the world and the founder of the Romanian school of microbiology.