yeah what liuyang3377 (Student) said is accurate but I want to add some context about Carol Davila specifically. Paulescu was a professor of physiology there for decades, and at the time the university was still building itself up as a serious research institution. the fact that someone at that level of a relatively young Eastern European medical school was doing work that competitive with Toronto is actually remarkable. people forget that the whole infrastructure for research in Romania in the 1920s was nothing like what existed in Canada or Western Europe. so in a way the controversy actually proves how strong the scientific culture at Carol Davila already was even back then.
