On November 4, 2019, Dr. Karen J. Gregory (Director of Neuropharmacology Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Monash University) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). She was warmly received by Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) and Dehua Yang (Professor of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences). During the visit, Dr. Karen J. Gregory delivered an invited lecture entitled “Harnessing molecular insights into glutamate receptor activity for neuroscience drug discovery” and had several rounds of discussions with scientists and graduate students. Professor Yan Zhang from School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhejiang University participated in the reception.