6-K: Report of foreign issuer [Rules 13a-16 and 15d-16]
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UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
______________________________________________
Form
6-K
REPORT
OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER
THE
SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For
the
month of March, 2007
Commission
File Number ________________
Novogen
Limited
(Translation
of registrant’s name into English)
140
Wicks
Road, North Ryde, NSW, Australia
(Address
of principal executive office)
___________________________________
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by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under
cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form
20-F
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40-F
o
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6-K
if submitted to furnish a report or other document that the registrant foreign
private issuer must furnish and make public under the laws of the jurisdiction
in which the registrant is incorporated, domiciled or legally organized (the
registrant’s “home country”), or under the rules of the home country exchange on
which the registrant’s securities are traded, as long as the report or other
document is not a press release, is not required to be and has not been
distributed to the registrant’s security holders, and, if discussing a material
event, has already been the subject of a Form 6-K submission or other Commission
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x
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant
has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Novogen
Limited
(Registrant)
/s/
Ron Erratt
Ronald
Lea Erratt
Company
Secretary
Date
30 March, 2007
ASX
& MEDIA RELEASE
29
MARCH 2007
NOVOGEN
ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD APPOINTMENT AT MARSHALL EDWARDS, INC.
Novogen
Limited’s subsidiary, Marshall Edwards Inc. (NASDAQ: MSHL), has made the
following announcement:
Sydney:
March 28, 2007
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Marshall Edwards, Inc is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr William
Rueckert to its Board of Directors
Mr.
Rueckert is president and director of Rosow & Company, a private investment
firm based in Connecticut since 1990 and is the Managing Member of Oyster
Management Group LLC investment fund. Mr. Rueckert is a Director of Emergency
Filtration Products, Inc. a public manufacturer and marketer of respiratory
filtration devices and is a Director of Glycotex Inc an 83 per cent owned
unlisted subsidiary of Novogen Limited. Prior to his current positions, Mr.
Rueckert has been president and director of Eastern Capital Development,
LLC
since 1999, treasurer of Moore & Munger, Inc. a company with interests in
the petroleum and resort development industries, from 1988 until 1990, and
was
president of United States Oil Company, a publicly traded oil exploration
business, from 1981 to 1988. Among his many civic associations, Mr. Rueckert
is
director and president of the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, a private
philanthropic organization in New York City and chairman of the Board of
the
Trustees of Teachers College, Columbia University.
Welcoming
Mr. Rueckert to the board, Marshall Edwards’ Chief Executive Officer, Mr
Christopher Naughton, said his particular expertise and experience would
bring
additional strong commercial acumen to the board.
“Bill
Rueckert also has an extensive US investment banking network which will benefit
and enhance the existing Marshall Edwards’ financial advisory relationships”. Mr
Naughton said.
Mr.
William Rueckert joins the MEI board of directors which includes Professor
Bryan
Williams (Chairman) Mr. Naughton (CEO), Professor Paul Nestel AO, Professor
Graham Kelly and Messrs Philip Johnston and Stephen Breckenridge.
Incorporated
in the US State of Delaware, Marshall Edwards Inc. is 78.1 per cent owned
by ASX
and NASDAQ listed pharmaceutical company, Novogen Limited from which it licences
phenoxodiol, and its shares are traded in the US on NASDAQ (Code: MSHL).
More
information on phenoxodiol and on the company can be found at www.marshalledwardsInc
com
and
www.novogen.com
Under
U.S. law, a new drug cannot be marketed until it has been investigated in
clinical trials and approved by the FDA as being safe and effective for the
intended use. Statements included in this press release that are not historical
in nature are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe
harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
You
should be aware that our actual results could differ materially from those
contained in the forward-looking statements, which are based on management's
current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties,
including, but not limited to, our failure to successfully commercialize
our
product candidates; costs and delays in the development and/or FDA approval,
or
the failure to obtain such approval, of our product candidates; uncertainties
in
clinical trial results; our inability to maintain or enter into, and the
risks
resulting from our dependence upon, collaboration or contractual arrangements
necessary for the development, manufacture, commercialization, marketing,
sales
and distribution of any products; competitive factors; our inability to protect
our patents or proprietary rights and obtain necessary rights to third arty
patents and intellectual property to operate our business; our inability
to
operate our business without infringing the patents and proprietary rights
of
others; general economic conditions; the failure of any products to gain
market
acceptance; our inability to obtain any additional required financing;
technological changes; government regulation; changes in industry practice;
and
one-time events. We do not intend to update any of these factors or to publicly
announce the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements.