Tver State Medical University

Russian state medical university in Tver, north west of Moscow, whose origins lie in a medical institute founded in 1936 in Leningrad and moved to Tver in 1954, and which took university status in 1995. Runs a pharmaceutical faculty teaching the pharmacy degree with departments of pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacognosy, pharmaceutical technology and pharmacology, together with faculties of general medicine, paediatrics, dentistry and a faculty for international students, and works with the region's hospitals as clinical bases for teaching and research.