Universidad de Guadalajara

Mexican public university in Guadalajara, Jalisco, whose origins go back to the Royal University of Guadalajara of 1792 and which was refounded in 1925, the second oldest university in the country and organised as a network of university centres across the state. Teaches pharmaceutical chemistry and biology, medicine, dentistry, nursing and nutrition through the University Centre for Health Sciences and chemistry and chemical engineering through the exact sciences centre, runs its own hospitals in the Hospital Civil de Guadalajara system and carries out research in drug development, natural products, food science and public health.