Shape Memory Therapeutics, Inc.

American medical device company founded in 2009 to commercialise shape memory polymer technology developed at Texas A&M University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, now based at Santa Clara in California and trading as Shape Memory Medical. Makes embolic devices from shape memory polymer foam that expand at body temperature, including the IMPEDE and IMPEDE-FX embolisation plugs and the Shape Memory peripheral embolisation range used in peripheral vascular and aneurysm work, and it develops neurovascular applications with clinical studies.