In the afternoon of September 27, 2012, Professor Mianheng Jiang (President of the Shanghai Branch, Chinese Academy of Sciences) warmly received Drs. Ray Stevens, Hualiang Jiang, Peter Vogt and Ming-Wei Wang, the core founding members of the iHuman Center to be established in Shanghai shortly. Following a brief status report by the team members, Professor Jiang highly commended the progresses made so far and offered his continued support to this international center. Dr. Jesper Lau (Vice President of Protein Chemistry, Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark) and Professor Jiarui Wu (Vice President of Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science) were present during the meeting.