At the invitation of Professor Zhen Gu, Dr. Ming-Wei Wang (Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library) visited Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), U.S.A. between February 11 and February 12, 2019. He conducted broad and in-depth discussions with Drs. Yang Yang (Professor and Director, Nano Renewable Energy Center), Aaron Meyer (Assistant Professor, Bioengineering), Song Li (Chancellor Professor and Chair, Department of Bioengineering), Paul S. Weiss (UC Presidential Chair, Distinguished Professor, and Editor-in Chief of ACS Nano), Gerard C.L. Wong (Professor, Bioengineering) and Huan Meng (Assistant Professor, Californian NanoSystems Institute). His seminar entitled “Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor: small molecule agonists, 3-dimentional structures and beyond” was enthusiastically received by the audience. Before concluding the visit, Drs. Wang and Gu had a roundtable discussion with a dozen of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars from mainland China.