The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemical Biology was prepared at the end of 2011, passed the expert acceptance organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology in December 2012, and moved to the new campus of Nankai University in Jinnan in April 2016, which has formed several research instrument platforms to provide technical support for scientific research, namely: high-throughput molecular drug screening platform, drug analysis and testing platform, cell experiment platform, molecular biology platform, structural biology platform, bioactive materials research platform, and bioimaging platform.

In order to ensure that the large instruments in the laboratory are directly open to the project groups in the laboratory, and to improve the openness to various units inside and outside the university, the laboratory instrument platform has completed the on-line work of the university-level platform for large instruments over 400,000 and the hospital-level platform below 400,000 with the assistance of the Laboratory Equipment Department of Nankai University. The link to the university-level platform is http://less.nankai.edu.cn/, and the link to the college-level platform is http://sklmcb.less.nankai.edu.cn/lims/.

In order to ensure the close coordination between the operation and management of instruments and equipment and scientific research work, the key laboratories strengthen the construction and management of instruments and equipment. In terms of staffing, as of 2023, there are 15 professional and technical personnel in the instrumentation platform, and the number of doctoral students accounts for 52% of the total number. This team is reasonably laid out in the laboratory and jointly undertakes the use, training, maintenance and management of all large instruments in the platform, which fully guarantees the good operation and service of the instruments and equipment in the laboratory instrumentation platform.

Scientific research instruments are the basic conditions for scientific innovation and important scientific innovation achievements. The instrument platform of State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology provides more favorable support for the construction of a strong science and technology country by achieving high level of scientific and technological self-sustainability and self-improvement, promoting open sharing of scientific and technological resources with high quality, and creating an upgraded version of open sharing of scientific research facilities and scientific research instruments.