TyRx Pharma Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Next year TyRx Pharma Inc. hopes to start selling a solution to problem of implant infections: implantable devices that will fit around pacemakers and ICDs, coated with an antibiotic-loaded polymer.
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