RADNOR, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PolyMedix, Inc. (OTC BB: PYMX, http://polymedix.com), an emerging biotechnology company developing new therapeutic drug products to treat infectious diseases and acute cardiovascular disorders based on biomimetics, has clearance to start human clinical trials in the United States with its anticoagulant reversing agent PMX-60056 under the Investigational New Drug application (IND) filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). PMX-60056 represents an entirely new class of drug, which PolyMedix calls a heptagonist, and is the only reversing agent for heparin and the Low Molecular Weight Heparins (LMWH) in clinical development.
