Drs. Jian Ding (Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering), Meiyu Geng (Deputy Director), Yang Ye (Deputy Director), Ming-Wei Wang (Center Director) and Min He (Division Chief) from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, the University of Melbourne (Australia) in the afternoon of September 4, 2015. They were warmly received by Drs. Glenn Bowes (Acting Dean), James F. Bishop (renowned expert in cancer medicine) and Fabienne Mackay (Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences). Following an invited lecture delivered by Professor Meiyu Geng, the delegates met with Drs. Daniel Hoyer (Head), James Ziogas (Deputy Head), Ross Bathgate, Alastair Stewart, Peter Crack and Moses Zhang of Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics to discuss ongoing and future collaborative research projects.