Brooklyn company launches life-saving gel nationwide

In an emergency situation, we know every second counts

That's why a high-tech new gel just got FDA approval to launch all across America

All right, Dan Bowens, you've got to get up pretty early in the morning to fool Dan Bowens

Well, I'm not going to fool you on this one. Do you guys remember what you were doing when you were 17 years old

Were you staying out of trouble? Were you sort of... I was staying out of trouble but still being stupid. Were you..

I'll second that. Were you inventing a life-saving possible discovery? No. Probably not

Well, first discovered by a Brooklyn biomedical engineer experimenting in his grandfather's lab when he was just 17 years old

It's called Trauma Gel, a plant-based gel designed to stop bleeding on contact

And now it's about to launch nationwide. So what they're doing in there, products that they're dealing with, one day could be used to save someone's life

Exactly. Every single syringe of Trauma Gel has been produced at this facility before being distributed out

throughout our markets. We're inside Kresselin Inc. Sterile Laboratory in Brooklyn. This is

I think, the only clean room that I've seen, at least, with a view. Yeah, we have a nice city view here. From here, we can see from Greenwood down to the

Verrazano. What's produced inside this contamination-free zone could change everything for emergency responders. And so this room here is the manufacturing core for Trauma Gel. And this

is trauma gel If you have a patient with a moderate to severe bleed what you do is you just open the pouch just like this and inside is a trauma gel syringe A unique plant gel with the consistency of hummus Let say I had a laceration here on my hand right what you would do is just get that

plug it in, and basically, you know, plug it into the wound. A formula that can stop bleeding almost instantly

What's actually happening from a chemistry standpoint? So the polymer chains in here are long

They're almost on a millimeter scale. And so that means that it's only a couple atoms wide

but very, very long chains that can hold from either side of the wound and maintain that pressure

But before we tell you about the revolutionary product Joe Landolina's company is about to take national

we have to go back in time to when he was just a boy

My grandfather was a winemaker. His grandfather, an ex-pharmaceutical exec turned winemaker

with a vineyard in the Hudson Valley, also had a small chemistry lab

It gave me really early access to this type of chemical lab research

By age 17, Joe was a chemical and bioengineering student at NYU, and he was on to something

I was trying to extract polymers out of algae for something else, as you do as a 17-year-old

and I noticed that this material that I made would stick to skin, and it wouldn't let go until I wanted it to

He co-founded the company with partner Isaac Miller out of a dorm room in 2010

first producing Vet-A-Gel, designed for vets to stop bleeding in animals. That product has saved over 65,000 animal lives in 34 countries

Then last year the FDA approved Trauma Gel for humans leading to pilot programs with EMTs and hospitals in Boston New Orleans Denver and Columbus Ohio

Has this product been used for a gunshot patient? If it's in something like an arm or a leg, you can put this product on

and it enables you as an EMT to control bleeding on contact or within seconds

And so, yes, the product has been used in situations like that. Major trauma, like those types of injuries, we see at least once a week

So why wouldn't someone like the FDNY or the NYPD, why wouldn't they be knocking the door down to get this product

We're getting there. I mean, I'm a native Brooklynite, and so the thing that I'm most excited for is the potential of being able to use this in my own backyard

Now it's possible. Cresselon unveiling a nationwide commercial launch of TraumaGel, ramping up production from their headquarters inside Industry City in Sunset Park

So what's in here? So this is the entrance to our manufacturing site. We were granted exclusive access inside the lab. Because of the FDA clearance

it must be completely sterile. So we suited up head to toe and went inside

This is the only biomanufacturing of its type in the fiber of New York

So you're doing the actual chemical composition creation here. Exactly. Everything from A to B, from A to Z, starts and finishes here

Science that's made here in Brooklyn is what drives me. It's what drives most of the teammates here at Cresson

because we know that we able in what very likely someone worst day of their lives we able to make a little difference and help them move forward and ideally help save their lives All right So while EMTs and hospitals are starting to see the

impact and this gel could be a real game changer in that field, it's not necessarily something

well, it's not something that you can pick up at your pharmacy just yet. So for all those parents

you get your kids with the bumps and bruises and scrapes. I know, you know, mom and dad

sometimes they might cut themselves when you realize, oh, okay, the band-aid's not going to

quite do it here. So something like this would be helpful, but it's just not available yet

maybe in the future at some point. Like what's the future looking like? Well, I mean, first

what they would like to do is get it into some of the bigger cities. Obviously, some of the bigger

emergency response teams all around, FDNY, NYPD. I mean, that's the sort of big moonshot in that

regard. Maybe somebody's watching today. You never know. Did you buy a piece? Did you get into it

Not yet. They're a private company for now. A lot of people have been asking me that, but you know

They have a well-established brand in the Vet-A-Gel, which is in a lot of the vets' offices all across the country

I mean, there's a good chance your vet might have one in their office right now, you know. You know, we talked about it earlier

You can see the applications of this outside of EMTs and emergency rooms

You know, it's not available in a pharmacy now, but I could envision a day where everybody, like you have Band-Aids at home

that you have some version of this that if you cut yourself in the kitchen or your kid hurts himself

or we talked about it earlier, an older person on blood thinners, you hit your head, it buys you time to get to the doctor and get to the ER

And I think that's the key, yeah, for sure. I mean, they've had some of those specific examples that have actually happened

where they've had some older people who've been injured, and this really helped on the way to the hospital. All right, well, this is great information

Okay. We're going to keep an eye on it. Straight out of Brooklyn. And it's a New York company. Exactly. Love