In the morning of May 9, 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-Ghent University in Belgium. He was warmly received by Drs. Jo Bury (Managing Director) and Nico Callewaert (Science Director of Center for Medical Biotechnology). They discussed application prospects of several biomarkers in the diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer.

Accompanied by Dr. Bury, Dr. Wang went to Confo Therapeutics located in the nearby VIB incubator at noon. He had a broad exchange with Drs. Christel Menet (Chief Scientific Officer) and Andreas Busch (Scientist of Structural Biology) resulting in the intent of forging a research collaboration on drug discovery targeting G protein-coupled receptors.

While attending the 15^th “Knowledge for Growth” Flanders Life Sciences Conference at the invitation of Dr. Bury, Professor Wang met with Dr. Johan Cardoen (Co-Managing Director of VIB) and Mr. Tom Aelbrecht (Head of Janssen Campus Office ‒ a Johnson & Johnson facility) to discuss trends in cell therapy technology development.