Université Paris Descartes

French public university in Paris, formed in 2019 from Université Paris Descartes, itself created in 1971 out of the medical and pharmacy faculties of the old University of Paris, together with Université Paris Diderot. Teaches through faculties of health with medicine, pharmacy and dentistry, sciences and the humanities, works with the Paris public hospitals for clinical teaching, and carries out research in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology, forensic science and biomedical sciences with its own laboratories and joint units.