pSivida Reports Positive IOP Safety Data in Phase III Trial of Medidur™ for Posterior Uveitis

pSivida Corp. (NASDAQ: PSDV); (ASX:PVA), a leader in the development of sustained release drug delivery products for treating eye diseases, today announced positive safety data from its ongoing assessment of masked safety data from its first Phase III clinical trial of Medidur™ for posterior uveitis, a blinding eye disease. At three months, only 4% more study eyes (2/3 of which received Medidur) experienced elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) than the fellow non-study eyes (none of which received Medidur). Initial IOP elevation is an indication of the likelihood of subsequent clinically significant IOP increases. The minimal difference observed in elevated IOP in the assessment suggests highly favorable results for a key safety measure of the trial, the number of eyes that develop clinically significant increases in IOP within 12 months of receiving Medidur relative to control eyes. "These data are very encouraging for the safety profile of Medidur," said Dr. Paul Ashton president and CEO of pSivida Corp. "A significant treatment challenge with posterior uveitis patients is managing the serious side effects of prolonged steroid use, the current first-line treatment. A therapy that can provide the benefits of steroids on a sustained basis for three years with a single injection with a lower incidence of side effects would be a very significant advance in treatment of this disease." The assessment of masked data compared the elevation of IOP over 21mmHg at three months study eyes and fellow eyes for the 105 out of 129 enrolled subjects with at least three month follow-up data. "We are very optimistic for the final IOP safety results in this trial," said Dr. Ashton. "We originally expected that the final IOP safety profile for Medidur would be at least as good as the IOP safety profile of the FDA-approved ILUVIEN® for diabetic macular edema (DME) (which uses the same micro-insert as Medidur and delivers the same dose of the same drug), and much better than the IOP safety profile of the FDA-approved Retisert® (which delivers a higher dose of the same drug in Medidur). On the basis of this ongoing assessment of masked study safety data, we now believe the final IOP results in the Medidur trial could be even better than those shown in the ILUVIEN and Retisert Phase III trials. At 36 months, 24% more patients treated with ILUVIEN and 45% more patients treated with Retisert required medication for elevated IOP than controls in their Phase III trials. We expect top line results from this first Phase III trial of Medidur to be available in Q2 2016, and with favorable results from this and our second trial, which has just been initiated, we intend to file for U.S. approval in the first half of 2017."