Professor Iwao Ojima, Director of Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at  Stony Brook University (USA) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of November 16, 2012.  He was accompanied by Professor Minghua Xu and Professor Hong Liu of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Ojima appreciated highly the operating mechanism, management style and innovative culture at CNCL.