RADNOR, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PolyMedix, Inc. (OTC BB: PYMX, http://polymedix.com), an emerging biotechnology company developing acute care products for infectious diseases and acute cardiovascular disorders based on biomimetics, presented new data at the “New Directions in AIDS Treatment Research Policy and Care Symposium” in New York on September 26th, 2008. Pre-clinical in vitro data describing the activity of a variety of PolyMedix’s novel small molecule defensin mimetic antibiotic compounds against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria which causes tuberculosis, were presented.