On May 8, 2019, Professor Ming-Wei Wang, Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University visited VIB-KU Leuven (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie - The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) in Belgium. He was warmly received by Drs. Jo Bury (Managing Director) and Boerge Diderichsen (Strategic Advisor).

In the morning, Dr. Wang held an in-depth discussion with Drs. Guy Eelen (Center for Cancer Biology), Luc Schoonjans (Center for Cancer Biology), Jan Demolder (Head of Intellectual Properties), Jo Bury and Boerge Diderichsen relative to the current progresses made in a joint drug screening project. At noon, he delivered an invited lecture entitled “Small molecule agonists for class B G protein-coupled receptors: past, present and future” which was enthusiastically responded by the audience. Following productive exchanges in the afternoon with Professor Diether Lambrechts (Science Director) and Dr. Junbin Qian of Center for Cancer Biology regarding the organizational plan and initial research projects at the ‘Sino-Belgian Collaboration Laboratory for Single Cell Analysis Technologies’, Dr. Wang received an outcome briefing by Drs. Boerge Diderichsen and Jo Bury of VIB delegation visit to China last month.