On January 19, 2016, Professor Patrick M. Sexton from Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Australia visited the National Center for Drug Screening (NCDS) and the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL), respectively. He was warmly greeted by Drs. Caihong Zhou (Associate Professor) and Dehua Yang (Associate Professor). Dr. Sexton is also a scientific advisor to NCDS. During the visit, he made several rounds of academic exchanges with some senior scientists, key technical staff and graduate students of NCDS and CNCL. Yesterday, Professor Sexton visited School of Pharmacy, Fudan University and delivered an invited lecture entitled “Towards a molecular understanding of biased signaling at the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor”.