Drs. Sunghoon Kim (Professor, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea) and Myung Hee Kim (Director, Infection and Immunity Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) on April 18, 2019. They were warmly received by Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/CNCL) and Dehua Yang (Professor, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Both parties agreed on the proposition of initiating a new project based on their prior research collaboration. This project will start shortly in Shanghai with the participation of both Chinese and Korean scientists.

During the visit, Dr. Ming-Wei Wang accompanied the Korean guests to visit Shanghai Institute of Precision Medicine and the Cryo-EM Center at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica. They interacted with Professor Ming Lei (Executive Director) and Professor Xuekui Yu, respectively. In the evening of April 17, Dr. Wang made a special trip to Zhangjiang Parkyard Hotel to greet his old friend, Dr. Sunghoon Kim, and his associate upon their arrival.