PharmaEssentia Corp. reported the appointment of Dr. Norio Komatsu, an expert in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) research in Japan, as Chairperson and Executive Director of the Company's Japanese subsidiary. Dr. Komatsu is a former professor and Chairman of the Department of Hematology at the Juntendo University School of Medicine. He also previously taught at the Yamanashi University School of Medicine as a professor and the Jichi Medical University as an associate professor. He is a member of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine and the Japanese Medical Association and served as the President of the 81st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Hematology (JSH) in 2019.