Professor Richard Furneaux and Professor Peter Tyler of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of October 23, 2014. They were accompanied by Professor Zhimeng Wu of School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University and received a warm reception by Dr. Ming-Wei Wang, Director of CNCL. They also delivered two invited lectures entitled “Big small molecule pharmaceuticals: cancer vaccines and dendrimers” and “Enzyme transition states and drug development”, respectively.