Dr. Micky Tortorella, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Drug Discovery and Technology Transfer, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, China, (GIBH) was invited to visit HKU and give a presentation on Drug Discovery Pipeline (DDP). In this presentation, Dr. Tortorella shared the DDP model and a number of DDP projects in drug discovery at GIBH; and the drug discovery and development-timeline. He then introduced the structure of Drug Discovery Centre in GIBH, its role and the collaboration activities.