Poly-Med, Inc. (PMI) is a privately owned company, incorporated in 1993, in Anderson County, South Carolina.The company's research team is comprised of experts in the fields of novel biomaterials, biomedical textiles and drug delivery.For the past several years, PMI has directed its R&D efforts toward establishing partnerships with manufacturing/marketing companies based on its proprietary materials and technologies. These included absorbable controlled drug delivery for dental and vascular applications, vascular graft sealants, vascular sealants, absorbable microfilament and multifilament sutures and allied devices, novel forms of knitted meshes for tissue repair, and absorbable tissue adhesives.