On March 18, 2019, Drs. Patrick M. Sexton and Denise Wootten of Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Australia visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). They met with Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/CNCL), Beili Wu, Qiang Zhao and Dehua Yang of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences as well as several postgraduate students to discuss recent progresses made in their collaborative research projects, issues that need to be dealt with and the near-term priorities associated with these projects.