On December 21, Prof. Chen Yiyu met with Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Dr. Sharon Hrynkow, Director of the Fogarty Center. Prof. Han Jianguo, Director General of the Bureau of International Cooperation, NSFC, Prof. Bai Ge, Deputy Director General of Bureau of International Cooperation, and Prof. Du Shengming, Deputy Director General of the Department of Life Sciences, NSFC, attended the meeting. Information of the two organizations and ideas about possibilities for future collaboration were exchanged.