pSivida Corp Reports Updates on ILUVIEN® for Planned Resubmission to FDA and European Launch

WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--pSivida Corp. (NASDAQ:PSDV)(ASX:PVA), a specialty pharmaceutical company that is a leader in the development of sustained release ophthalmic drug treatments, today announced that its licensee Alimera Sciences, Inc. reported a number of updates with respect to ILUVIEN® for chronic diabetic macular edema (DME). Alimera announced that it intends to resubmit its New Drug Application for ILUVIEN for DME to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by the end of March 2013. Using data from Alimera’s two previously completed pivotal Phase III clinical trials (FAME™ Study), the resubmission will focus on the safety aspects of ILUVIEN and the population of patients with chronic DME considered insufficiently responsive to available therapies, the same group for which marketing approval for ILUVIEN has been granted in various EU countries, according to Alimera. Approval in the U.S. would entitle pSivida to a $25 million milestone payment from Alimera and 20% of net profits, as defined, from U.S. sales of ILUVIEN by Alimera.