Pharmacology was rooted in physiology, from which it took the experimental methodology and took over and developed into therapeutics and became the basis of rational use of drugs.

In our country pharmacology was developed predominantly in academic medical centers, professors of pharmacology and their teams are a key factor in promoting knowledge about medicine and research in this area. In the coming years it is likely to increase considerably the role of pharmacologists, pharmaceutical industry and the importance of pharmacological research.

The emergence of a Department of Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest, the oldest department of its kind in the country, required several stages of relative distinction.

A first step arose from the need to build a pharmacology education for physicians and pharmacists and this stage is mainly linked to the names of three personalities, pharmacists Pruzinsky Francis and Frederic Gaudy, and Constantin Hepites who was equally a doctor and a pharmacist. In fact Hepites was a scholar. He studied mineralogy, chemistry, botany, pharmacy and medicine. This stage lasts for approximately 1856 first documentary attestation of a university pharmacology and 1864 when Hepites leaves education. Subsequently pharmacology education development is promoted mainly by doctors.

A second phase is primarily related to the professors Nicolae Maldarescu and Zaharia Petrescu. It is a stage where pharmacology education is taught sometimes in separate disciplines, by both physicians and pharmacists, either only in the Faculty of Pharmacy, or only in the Faculty of Medicine, or distinct from the two faculties, namely the Faculty of Sciences. This stage lasts until 1901 when the Department of Pharmacology takes the title "Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Department".

After 1901 the chair becomes practically an institution that has a well defined upward continuous trend, under the leadership succesors of professors Nicolae Petrescu and Zaharia Maldarescu respectively in order, Professor Dimitrie Ionescu (1912-1920), Professor Socrates Lalu (from 1920 to 1940 ), Professor Peter Niculescu (1942-1944), Professor Ion NiALescu (at the Department of Physiology who teaches pharmacology as locum-tenens (acting professor) between 1940 and 1947), Professor Alfred Teitel (1947-1074), Professor Valentin Stroescu (1974-2000) and currently (since 2000), Professor Ion Fulga.