Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) and Xin Xie (Deputy Director, the National Center for Drug Screening) attended the 1^st Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) meeting of ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science held at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences located in Melbourne, Australia in the morning of December 2, 2018. Dr. Xin Xie is an associate editor of the journal while Dr. Ming-Wei Wang serves as an EAB member. Chaired by Dr. Patrick M. Sexton (Editor-in-Chief), more than 10 EAB members from different countries discussed in great detail about the development status of the journal since its establishment a little less than a year ago and the working plan of 2019. Dr. Janice E.Y. Silverman (Acquisitions Editor) from American Chemical Society (ACS) participated in the meeting.