Université de Montréal

Canadian public French language university in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1878 as a Montreal branch of Université Laval and independent since 1920, one of the country's largest research universities. Its Faculté de pharmacie, among the oldest in Canada, teaches the doctorate in pharmacy and graduate programmes in pharmaceutical sciences, clinical pharmacy, drug development and pharmacoeconomics, and works with the university's affiliated hospital centre CHUM, Sainte-Justine children's hospital and the Montreal Heart Institute on clinical trials and pharmacological research.