In the afternoon of May 24, 2017, Professor Patrick M. Sexton from Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Australia, who is also a scientific advisor of the National Center for Drug Screening (NCDS) and international adjunct professor of Fudan School of Pharmacy, visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). He was warmly greeted by Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director, NCDS/CNCL and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University). He had an in-depth discussion with Dr. Dehua Yang (Associate Professor, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Ph.D. students Ms. Yue Zhu and Ms. Saifei Lei relative to ongoing collaborative projects. Accompanied by Dr. Ming-Wei Wang, Dr. Sexton visited ShanghaiTech University in the evening where they had dinner together at the student canteen.