The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) on Jan. 29, 2013 celebrated Sanofi’s commercial launch of LeGoo®, a biopolymer gel that allows surgeons to temporarily stop blood flow during surgery without the use of clamps, elastic loops or other conventional occlusion devices that may risk trauma to blood vessels. Pluromed, a 2009 MLSC Accelerator Loan recipient, developed LeGoo’s proprietary polymer technology, called Rapid Transition Polymers (RTP), and was acquired in 2012 by Sanofi. The announcement represents the first global product launch of a technology developed with funding from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center’s Accelerator Loan Program.
