Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that Peter Thompson, M.D., a director of the company, resigned from the board of directors of the company effective upon the company's 2013 annual meeting of stockholders. May Liu, 37, was appointed as principal accounting officer. Ms. Liu has served as the company's vice president, finance since January 2011.

Prior to that, she served as Anthera's Corporate Controller since October 2007. Ms. Liu joined the company as Director of Finance in April 2007. Prior to that, Ms. Liu served as SEC Reporting and Technical Accounting Manager at Renovis, Inc., from October 2005 to March 2007.