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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM 6-K
 
REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
For the month of March 2005
 
Commission File Number 000-51122
 
pSivida Limited
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
 
 
Level 12 BGC Centre
28 The Esplanade
Perth WA 6000
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
 
(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F).
 
Form 20-F ý        Form 40-F o
 
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):
 
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
 
Yes o        No ý
 
 
If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- ___.
 
SIGNATURE
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant, pSivida Limited, has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 
Date: March 16, 2005
 
     
  pSivida Limited
 
 		  
 		  
 
  By:   /s/ Aaron Finlay
 
Aaron Finlay
  Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary
 

 

 
EXHIBIT INDEX
 
EXHIBIT 99.1:
pSivida Added to Merrill Lynch Nanotechnology Index
 
 

 
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ASX/MEDIA RELEASE
17th March 2005

pSivida Added to Merrill Lynch
Nanotechnology Index
Addition to be reflected in Index Value on Monday 21st March

Global nanotechnology company pSivida Limited (NASDAQ:PSDV, ASX:PSD, Xetra:PSI) is pleased to announce that Merrill Lynch has added the company to the Merrill Lynch Nanotechnology Index. pSivida is one of nine companies that comprise the 27 on the index involved in nano-biotech.

Criteria for inclusion in the Merrill Lynch Nanotechnology Index are companies in which nanotechnology initiatives represent a significant component of their future business strategy. The companies that are included must be listed on a national exchange or quoted on the NASDAQ National Market or NASDAQ Small Market. pSivida began trading on the NASDAQ National Market on 27th January 2005.


ENDS


Released by:

In Australia:
In US:
Josh Mann
Beverly Jedynak
Investor Relations
President
pSivida Limited
Martin E. Janis & Company, Inc.
Tel: + 61 8 9226 5099
Tel: 312-943-1100 ext. 12
joshuamann@psivida.com
bjedynak@janispr.com




NOTES TO EDITORS:

Ticker Symbols
Australian Stock Exchange
: PSD
NASDAQ
: PSDV
Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Xetra)
: PSI

pSivida Limited
pSivida is a global nanotechnology company 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 24 patent families, 26 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 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.

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.
 
pSivida has a strong management team with a powerful blend of international experience in biotechnology commercialization, the pharmaceutical industry, licensing and capital markets:

·  
Mr Gavin Rezos, Managing Director - a former Investment Banking Director of the HSBC Group.

·  
Dr Roger Brimblecombe, Non Executive Chairman - former Chairman of SmithKline & French Research and Chairman of MVM Ventures.

·  
Dr Roger Aston, Director Strategy - former CEO PepTech Ltd and Director of Cambridge Antibody Technology Ltd (UK).

·  
Professor Leigh Canham, Chief Scientific Officer - a DERA fellow and the world’s foremost authority on porous silicon and the inventor of BioSilicon™.

·  
Dr Anna Kluczewska, Managing Director, AION Diagnostics - a former Global Product Manager with Baxter Healthcare Inc, based in Munich and Vienna.

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.