Department of Physiology, School of Medicine was founded since 1960 when Taipei Medical University (TMU) was first established. The Department was chaired by Prof. Tsong-Huan Kuo in 1960, Prof. Jing-Yi Wu in 1964, Prof. Cheng Chang in 1967, Prof. Hong-Rong Liu in 1970 and 1983, Prof. Chung-Jen Huang in 1980, Prof. Li-Hsueh Tsai in 1990, Prof. Wen-Sen Lee in 1998, Prof. Yi-Hsuan Lee in 2005, Prof. Jia-Yi Wang in 2010, and Prof. Heng Lin in 2018. From 2024, Prof. Ching-Hao Li is now served as the department chairman. In 1999, the Biology and Physics sections, which was belonged to the Department of General Sciences, were merged to the Physiology. Since then, the Physiology Department carried the mission of teaching General Biology, General Physics, and Medical Physiology at Taipei Medical University.