Between January 8 and 9, 2018, Professor Patrick M. Sexton from Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Australia visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). He was warmly greeted by Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) and Dehua Yang (Professor of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica). Dr. Sexton is also a scientific advisor to NCDS. During the visit, he made several rounds of academic exchanges with some senior scientists, key technical staff and graduate students of NCDS and CNCL. Yesterday, Professor Sexton visited School of Pharmacy, Fudan University and delivered an invited lecture entitled “Towards an understanding of the structure and activation of class B G protein-coupled receptors”.