In the evening of September 24, 2019, Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University), Eric Huaqiang Xu (Professor) and Dehua Yang (Professor) from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences as well as Yan Zhang (Professor, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhejiang University; connected from Hangzhou) held a teleconference via Skype with Professor Hippokratis Kiaris (College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, U.S.A.). They discussed the plan to carry out well-defined research collaborations. Ms. Yuzhe Wang (Ph.D. candidate, University of Chinese Academy of Science), Ms. Zhaotong Cong (Ph.D. candidate, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) and Mr. Youwen Zhang (Ph.D. candidate, College of Pharmacy University of South Carolina) participated in the discussion.