Drs. Patrick M. Sexton and Denise Wootten of Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Australia met with Drs. Beili Wu and Dehua Yang of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences at the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of October 17, 2018. They discussed recent progresses made in their collaborative research projects, issues that need to be dealt with and the near-term priorities associated with these projects.