Professor Christopher Proud of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI, Adelaide) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of June 16, 2015. He was warmly greeted by Dr. Ming-Wei Wang (Director of CNCL). He discussed recent progresses made in the bilateral research collaboration with several Chinese scientists and graduate students. Dr. Proud also delivered an invited lecture entitled “The roles of the MAP kinase-interacting kinases in health and diseases”.