pSivida Corp Reports U.K. National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Accepts ILUVIEN® Subgroup Data for Review

WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--pSivida Corp. (NASDAQ:PSDV) (ASX:PVA), a leader in developing sustained release, drug delivery products for treatment of back-of-the-eye diseases, announced today that the United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has accepted for review additional data relating to the pseudophakic subgroup of patients with chronic diabetic macular edema (DME), meaning those patients who already had cataract surgery and had received an artificial lens when they entered the FAME™ Study conducted by pSivida’s licensee, Alimera Sciences, Inc. (Alimera). NICE is currently evaluating the cost-effectiveness of ILUVIEN for the treatment of chronic DME considered insufficiently responsive to available therapies.