The course of pharmaceutics was set up at the year 1952 and the Division of Pharmaceutics was established in the late 1950s. The Department of Pharmaceutics was founded in 1996 by merging the Divisions of Pharmaceutics, Physical Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Analysis. The department was headed by Prof. Wei Shu-Li from 1996 to 1999, and headed by Prof. Zhang Qiang from 1999 to 2003. In the year 2003, the department was re-constructed by two divisions, consisting of Pharmaceutics and Physical Chemistry. The department was headed by Prof. Lu Wei from 2004 to 2016. Since the year 2017, the department is headed by Prof. Lu Wan-Liang. The department branch committee of the Communist Party is headed by Prof. Qi Xian-Rong since the year 2012.