Faculty of Pharmacy with Subfaculty of Laboratory Medicine
| Dean: | Prof. Wiesław Sawicki, Ph.D. |
| Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Pharmacy | |
| Address: | Al. Gen. J. Hallera 107, 80-416 Gdańsk |
| Tel.: | +48 58 349 3200, 349 3201 |
| Tel./fax: | +48 58 349 3206 |
| E-mail: | dfarma@gumed.edu.pl |
The Faculty of Pharmacy MUG primary goal is to educate Masters of Science and Masters of Medical Analysis who will be able to face the growing competition connected with the fact that Poland is a member of the European Union.
The Faculty of Pharmacy educates students in two majors – pharmacy (homogenous 5-year MSc studies) and medical analysis (homogenous 5-year MSc studies). The Faculty’s high level of education was confirmed by the Accreditation Committee for Medical Universities, which granted the Faculty accreditation for both MSc majors. Classes in pharmacy are also conducted in English.
The Faculty has a 5-year-long accreditation from the Minister of Health for running specialized courses in retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, pharmaceutical analysis and industrial pharmacy. In cooperation with the National Research Institute OINpharma in Warsaw (Ośrodek Informacji Naukowej) and the Pharmaceutical Faculty of Medical University in Warsaw, the Faculty of Pharmacy in Gdańsk organizes 3-semester postgraduate studies in industrial pharmacy.
Currently, as many as 856 students study at the Faculty of Pharmacy and throughout its 60 years of activity, it has educated 4,872 Masters of Pharmacy, 76 Bachelors of Science and 62 Masters of Medical Analysis. Both MSc and PhD students can go abroad and study within the framework of The Lifelong Learning Programme.
The Faculty consists of sixteen Departments and Institutes, the Library, the Medicinal Plant Garden, the Postgraduate Training Centre, two computer rooms and a pharmacy. Among the Faculty’s staff there are 113 university teachers, including 7 full professors, 10 associate professors and 10 teachers with a post doctorate degree. A dozen or so PhD students perform their research within the full-time PhD study programme.
One of the Faculty’s goals is intensive research into medications that will meet worldwide standards. This can be achieved by strengthening its cooperation with the country’s pharmaceutical industry and by participating in international research programmes. Teams of scientists are especially interested in obtaining and analyzing synthetic medications, as well as examining their biological properties. They also wish to come up with new forms of synthetic and natural medications. The Faculty is considered to be the leading Polish scientific centre in cooperating with the pharmaceutical industry.
Thanks to dynamic research activities, the Faculty has awarded 222 PhD’s (the first one in 1950) and 55 with post doctorate degrees (the first one in 1967). The MUG’s Senate filed a motion for conferring an honorary doctorate upon the following professors: Stanisław Byczkowski (1985), Alan R. Katritzky (1994) and Irving W. Wainer (2006).
In the ranking of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for 61 medical faculties and institutes, the Faculty of Pharmacy was awarded first place in the category of medical research units. We came third in Poland, so we are behind only two research units of the Polish Academy of Science (PAN) – The Department of Medical Biology in Warsaw and The Institute of Pharmacology in Krakow.