The 12^th academic conference held by Chinese Medicine Experimental Pharmacology Branch of Chinese Association of Chinese Medicine was successfully completed in Changsha on October 19-21, 2016. This meeting aimed to gather together a national community of the Chinese medicine and to improve the development in the field of Chinese medicine experimental pharmacology. Prof. Ge Zhang was invited to attend this conference and give a speech entitled “From Precision Medicine to Drug Discovery: Inhibition of Osteoblastic Smurf1 Promotes Bone Formation in Distinctive Individuals with Age-related Osteoporosis”.