Jointly chaired by Dr. Ruiming Xu, Director-General of Bureau of Frontier Sciences and Education, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Dr. Baoping Wang, President of Novo Nordisk (NN, Denmark) China Research and Development Center, the NN-CAS Research Fund held a ‘NN-CAS Get-Together Day’ in Beijing on September 25, 2015. Board members such as Drs. Tao Xu (Director of Institute of Biophysics, CAS), Ming-Wei Wang (Director, the National Center for Drug Screening) and Fang Zhang (Vice President of Novo Nordisk China R&D Center), among others, made special remarks. Drs. Dehua Yang (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS) and Zhihua Liu (Institute of Biophysics, CAS) presented the latest progresses made in their respective research project sponsored by the NN-CAS Research Fund. Several dozens of participants were divided into three groups in the afternoon for roundtable discussions. Dr. Bing Sun (Shanghai Pasteur Institute, CAS) and Madam Dongyao Wang (Program Officer of Division of European Affairs, Bureau of International Cooperation of CAS) attended the event.