The Victor Babe University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timi oara (Romanian:Universitatea de Medicin i Farmacie "Victor Babe ", Timi oara) is located in Timi oara, Romania.The school was founded as a modest faculty on 30 December 1944, when King Michael I of Romania signed decree-law nr. 660,: "Art. 1. - The West University is founded on the date of publication of this hereby law, having the following faculties: Law, Literature and Philosophy, Sciences, Human medicine, Veterinary medicine, Pharmacology and Theology."The inauguration of the new university took place on 15 July 1945 and classes started 3 days later in the Notre Dame building (today the Students' House) on Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology, Physiopathology, Histology, Microbiology and Parasitology.