Dr. Sunghoon Kim (Specially appointed foreign expert of the National Thousand Talents Program and Professor of Seoul National University, Korea) visited the National Center for Drug Screening (NCDS) and the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) between January 25 and 29, 2015. He delivered an invited lecture entitled “Exploration of the third generation cancer target” which received active responses among the audience. During the visit, Professor Kim conducted several rounds of discussions with principal investigators, key technical staff and graduate students from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, participated in the due diligence studies by McKinsey & Company, and met with officials at Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs.