On June 26, 2015, Dr. Laurent Audoly  (Senior Vice President of Centre de R&D Pierre Fabre, Toulouse, France) visited Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Center from Drug Screening (NCDS) and the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). He was warmly greeted by Dr. Meiyu Geng (Deputy Director of SIMM) and Mr. Jun Li (Deputy Director of SIMM). In-depth academic exchanges were made between him and Drs. Ming-Wei Wang, Fajun Nan, Xin Xie, Jingya Li, Jianmin Yue, Lijiang Xuan, Yong Gan, Wei Tang, Haiyan Zhang and other scientists. Dr. Audoly also delivered an invited lecture entitled “Building a pharma antibody portfolio: challenges and opportunities”.