In the morning of February 1, 2018, a telephone conference was held among Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University and Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library), Beili Wu (Professor, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SIMM), Dehua Yang (Professor, SIMM), Professor Di Zhu (Professor, Fudan University) and Professor Patrick M. Sexton as well as Dr. Denise Wootten of Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Melbourne, Australia). They discussed the overall plan of ongoing multilateral research collaboration. Xin Chuan Dai (Assistant Professor, SIMM), Haonan Zhang (Ph.D. student, SIMM), Anna Qiao (Ph.D. student SIMM), Sanaz Darbalaei (Ph.D. student, SIMM), Lijun Shao (Ph.D. student, ShanghaiTech University), Lulüè Chang (Ph.D. student, Fudan University) and Mei Feng (MSc student, Fudan University) participated in this transpacific interaction that lasted for more than one hour.