Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.:
40.808.203 von Peter_02 am 06.01.11
09:13:36hi peter,
hier nochmal die aussagen von bev,die auch bezug nehmen auf
biosilicon/brachisyl!
Of the pSivida technologies:
Medidur (which is what underlies Iluvien) is being adaped as a
biodegradeable version - I believe some of that work is being done
both
in-house at pSivida as well as with Pfizer (as it was the Medidur
technology
that Pfizer licensed).
Durasert is sort of the same technology as Medidur, but far
broader.
Again, I this also continues to be under development.
BioSilicon is definitely being developed and I think we may
hear
something with regard to this early in 2011.
BrachySil is awaiting a partner - pSivida does not want to be
the
one to take it through phase III trials as they would be extremely
costly
and there are many, many companies involved in the pancreatic
cancer
space....what pSivida hopes to do is partner or license this
technology off
to a partner and let them do this.
Unfortunately the Pfizer contract is such that we absolutely cannot
say
anything about Pfizer or what is going on. I have been told that we
may
have something to report very soon....but until we do I really
cannot
address it.
As to the 36 month trial data -- Alimera, who is the company that
is in
charge of all clinical work and working with the FDA (even though
we have
reference rights and co-ownership of all the data) was told by the
FDA that
they will accept 24 month trial data for an NDA -- this is standard
in the
industry - but the company must agree to provide the 36 month data.
When
Alimera filed its NDA in June with the 24 month data we knew that
the final
patient would complete the 36 month follow up in the following
month of
October. So, all that 36-month follow up has been completed and
the
statisticians are currently analyzing the data - so the 36 month
data is not
quite as far away as people are assuming. I would think that the
analysis
can be done relatively quickly (perhaps two to three months). I do
not know
specifically what the FDA is looking for as complete response
letters are
not public information. The good news in this, I believe, is that
the FDA
did NOT request an additional trial - and that is a very big deal.
I had
another client who got a CRL and in that one a trial was requested
in order
to satisfy FDA questions.
So, here's the bottom line - we have a drug for which the FDA
requires more
information before making a marketing decision. Alimera is the
company that
will be talking with the FDA and carrying out whatever is necessary
to
respond to the CRL. pSivida has $15M in the bank at the end of
September;
its burn rate remains a very low $1.5M a QUARTER! So we have money
and have
no need to raise money at the present time. We have an agreement
with
Pfizer that has been moving along for the past three years - almost
four now
-- so we would expect some news (and perhaps milestones) to be
achieved in
2011. The company is talking with others regarding their
technology
(remember Iluvien is actually relatively old at this point).