Accompanied by Professor Xin Xie (Deputy Director, the National Center for Drug Screening, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Jürgen Schrader (Chairman, Department of Molecular Cardiology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of April 9, 2019. He was deeply impressed by the advanced level of this state-run R&D facility. Professor Jürgen Schrader delivered an invited lecture entitled “Epicardial progenitor cells (EPDC) and fibroblasts in the healing process after myocardial infarction” which was enthusiastically received by the audience.