Exhibit
99.1
ASX/MEDIA
RELEASE
13
September 2005
pSivida
to present at ThinkEquity Partners
Conference in San
Francisco
Global
nanotechnology company pSivida Limited (ASX:PSD,
NASDAQ:PSDV, Xetra:PSI)
is
pleased to announce that Managing Director, Mr Gavin Rezos will present a
corporate overview to potential investors at the ThinkEquity
Partners Third Annual Growth Conference on Wednesday, September 14,
2005.
The
conference will highlight 200 of the fastest-growing, most-innovative companies
in the world.
pSivida
is committed to the biomedical sector and the development of products in
healthcare. The company’s focus is the development and commercialisation of a
modified form of silicon (porosified or nano-structured silicon) known as
BioSilicon™. As a new and exciting biocompatible material, BioSilicon™ offers
multiple potential applications across the high growth healthcare sector,
including controlled release drug delivery, targeted cancer therapies (including
brachytherapy and localized chemotherapy), tissue engineering and orthopedics.
Potential diagnostics applications are being developed through its subsidiary
AION Diagnostics Limited.
pSivida
owns the intellectual property rights to BioSilicon™ for use in or on humans and
animals. The IP portfolio consists of 26 patent families, 31 granted patents
and
over 80 patent applications. The core patent, which recognises BioSilicon™ as a
biomaterial was granted in the UK in 2000 and in the US in 2001.
pSivida
Limited is currently in negotiations to acquire a US based drug delivery
company
with the potential to create a global drug delivery company specializing
in
nanotechnology, with revenues from existing products and generating long-term
value through its diversified late-stage product portfolio.
ThinkEquity
Partners LLC is a research-centric institutional investment firm focused
on the
growth economy. ThinkEquity Partners LLC is dedicated to providing focused
insight, advisory services, and capital to institutional investors and corporate
constituents in the knowledge economy's key growth verticals, including
technology, healthcare, media and consumer business services. For more
information about ThinkEquity Partners LLC, please visit www.thinkequity.com.
Member
NASD and SIPC.
-ENDS-
Released
by:
|
pSivida
Limited
Brian
Leedman
Investor
Relations
pSivida
Limited
Tel:
+ 61 8 9226 5099
brianl@psivida.com
|
US
Public Relations
Beverley
Jedynak
President
Martin
E. Janis & Company, Inc
Tel:
+1 (312) 9 1100 ext. 12
bjedynak@janispr.com
|
UK
& Europe Public Relations
Mark
Swallow / Helena Podd
Citigate
Dewe Rogerson
Tel:
+44 (0)20 7638 9571
mark.swallow@citigatedr.co.uk
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NOTES
TO EDITORS:
pSivida
is listed on NASDAQ (PSDV),
the
Australian Stock Exchange (PSD)
and in
Germany on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on the XETRA system (German Symbol:
PSI. Securities Code (WKN) 358705).
pSivida’s shares also trade in the United Kingdom on the OFEX International
Market Service (IMS) under the ticker symbol PSD.
pSivida
is a founding member of the NASDAQ Health Care Index and the Merrill Lynch
Nanotechnology Index.
The
Company’s strategic partner and largest shareholder is the QinetiQ group, the
largest science and technology company in Europe. QinetiQ is the former UK
government Defence Evaluation Research Agency and was instrumental in
discovering BioSilicon™. pSivida enjoys a strong relationship with QinetiQ
having access to its cutting edge research and development facilities. For
more
information on QinetiQ visit www.qinetiq.com.
For
more
information, visit www.psivida.com
This
document contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such
forward-looking statements are reasonable at this time, we can give no assurance
that such expectations will prove to be correct. Given these uncertainties,
readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking
statements. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated
in
these forward-looking statements due to many important factors including:
our
failure to develop applications for BioSiliconTM
due to
regulatory, scientific or other issues. Other reasons are contained in
cautionary statements in the Registration Statement on Form 20-F filed with
the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, under
Item 3.D, "Risk Factors" therein. We do not undertake to update any
oral or
written forward-looking statements that may be made by or on behalf of
pSivida.