[3] The university is named after Victor Babeș (1854–1926), the author of the first bacteriology treatise in the world and the founder of the Romanian school of microbiology.

1 – The West University is founded on the date of publication of this hereby law, having the following faculties: Law, Literature and Philosophy, Sciences, Human Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacology and Theology.The inauguration of the new university took place on 15 July 1945 and classes started three days later in the Notre Dame High School (present-day Students' House).

In October 1945, the faculty was given the current premises – the former German-language Banatia High School built in 1926,[5] requisitioned and transformed into a Soviet military hospital during World War II.

In 2012, UMFT opened the first diet canteen for students with diabetes, congenital heart defects and other diseases.

[8] The library of the Timișoara Institute of Medicine was founded in March 1946 with a number of 40 volumes, the book deposit being common with the reading room, whose capacity was 50 seats.