Origen del Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología molecular de la Universidad de Salamanca

Created the Chair of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Salamanca (Spain) in 1968, it was adscript as a Department to its Biological Section (soon transformed in Faculty of Biology). Structural and Metabolic Biochemistry were obligatory matters, and Molecular Biology as optative, in the studies. When the Faculty of Pharmacy was created in this University, in 1971, Biochemistry and Special Biochemistry (obligatory) and Clinical Biochemistry  (as a optative) were the matters teached at the Faculty of Pharmacy by the "Interfacultative Department, Sciences and Pharmacy", constituted in 1975. In 1982, the Chair of Biochemistry was created at the Faculty of Pharmacy; and the Interfacultative Department was divided. Finally, when the Chair of Biochemistry of the Faculty of Medicine was separated from that of Phisiology, the former was integrated with those of Biology and Pharmacy to constitute, in 1987, the present Department. According to independent evaluations, the level of scientifical research carried out, from the first time, by the Chairs of this Department is very high.