Dr. Ming-Wei Wang, Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL), met with Dr. Zhang Cheng, his classmate in the college, specialist in functional medicine and licensed physician in South Carolina (U.S.A.) at CNCL in the morning of April 24, 2019. They recalled some fond memories of the early years when they were studying at Shanghai First Medical College and discussed marketing strategies for functional medicine as supplement to conventional therapies.