Asian Chemical Biology Initiative (ACBI), an organization launched 8 years ago by scientists from Japan, Korea, China and Singapore, held an academic forum at Yangon, Myanmar, between January 19 and January 21, 2019. Dr. Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library, Shanghai) attended the meeting and gave a presentation describing the latest achievements of his research team relative to G protein-coupled receptors, which was well received by the audience.