On December 7th, 2020, the 2nd Conference of Pan-Balkan Alliance of Natural Products and Drug Discovery Associations (PANDA) and Scientific Webinar on Combating COVID-19 were held in Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM), Chinese Academy of Sciences. On the online conference, which was also broadcasted online, attended a great number of professors and scientist from 13 countries (China, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Portugal and Turkey).

PANDA Alliance Council approved the joining for the four new members from Portugal, Romania, Turkey and Greece. The conference and webinar contained reports and views about previous research and knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 virus, development of serological tests for virus detection, screening of potential anti-coronavirus drugs as well as research related to the development of vaccine that will help us on combating COVID-19.

Further, at the conference, prof. Ye Yang, chairman of PANDA Council, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and Zhuang Yan, Director of International Organization Department, Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, officially opened PANDA Shanghai Secretariat.