Sava Dumitrescu (born January 19, 1927 in

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- died September 7, 2019,

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) was a

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pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemica ...

and professor at the

Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy ( ro, Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie „Grigore T. Popa”, or UMF Iași) is a public university-level medical school located in Iași, Romania. Named in honor of the scientist Grigore ...

in Iaşi,

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. He also served as

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of the university. He retired from teaching in 1993, but continued his research activities. Sava Dumitrescu published the "Handbook of Pharmacology", in 2 volumes (1981 and 1985). He is also President of the Romanian National Ethics Committee.http://www.efgcp.eu/Downloads/confDocuments/Complex%20Cases%20Workshop%20Bucharest%20Prel.%20Programme%2010-11-30.pdf, EFGCP Workshop on Complex Cases for Research Ethics Committees. Retrieved March 8, 2011.Preotesoiu, Carmen & Munteanu, Irina (February 22, 2011)
Cum se testează în România medicamentele pe oameni
'' Jurnalul Naţional'' (in Romanian). Retrieved March 17, 2011 (referring to Dumitrescu as the Ethics Commission's director, "Dar directorul Comisiei de Etică")

References

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