Professor Alastair Stewart of Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Melbourne (Australia) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of November 17, 2014. He was warmly greeted by Dr. Ming-Wei Wang, Director of CNCL. Following discussions with several Chinese scientists, Dr. Stewart delivered an invited lecture entitled “Glucocorticoids and inflammatory networks in airway structural cells”.