Prioritize languages relevant to target markets, regulatory requirements, and regions where your life sciences products are marketed.
Life Sciences
Life sciences translations and global content services for pharma, medical device and clinical research companies.
Speed, Efficiency and Safety in Global Medical and Pharma Communications
→ Streamline product labeling and information
→ Accelerate global clinical trials
→ Meet regulatory compliance demands
→ Increase project quality and efficiency
At the Forefront of Life Sciences Translation and Content Services
Partnering with medical device, pharmaceutical, biotech, and clinical research organizations, we blend our decades of language and content expertise with unmatched industry knowledge that helps save lives.
We balance the latest developments in AI technology, delivering efficiency and scale, with profound human life sciences knowledge to guarantee quality and safety.
Trusted by Global Life Sciences Leaders
“The benefits of working with Acolad include a true partnership, willingness to discuss possibilities to improve tools and processes, and passion about services provided. The guaranteed quality and efficiencies are greatly appreciated.”
Jennifer Kelly
Vice President Operations, HealthiVibe
Solutions Designed for Your Unique Needs in Life Sciences
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
In the fast-paced and highly regulated world of pharma and biotech, regulatory compliance, quality, integrity, traceability, and patient safety are critical for successful international market expansion. At Acolad, we are equipped to meet your specific language needs throughout every stage of the product lifecycle, from pre-clinical to post-market.
- Products launch
- Regulatory compliance
- Patient safety
- Quality requirements
- Time to market
✓ Clinical trial translations
- Protocols, correspondences, dossiers, patient recruitment materials, COA/PRO instruments
- Tech and process implementation for scalability, accuracy and speed
✓ Successful and timely regulatory submissions
- Deep knowledge of EMA submissions and ROW
- Tools developed for submissions requirements
✓ Marketing communications
- Website localization
- Multilingual SEO
- Culturally adapted campaigns
- Copywriting and transcreation
- Marketing transcreation
✓ Patient engagement
- Culturally appropriate materials
- Diverse recruitment
- Interpreting services and solutions
✓ Timeliness of pharmacovigilance reporting
- Systems and processes tuned for rapid turnaround
- Technology to handle a variety of inputs and report formats
- Translation of quality SOPs
✓ Translation of manufacturing records
✓ Corporate communications (HR, Legal, Training)
- Multimedia localization
- Elearning localization
- In person and remote interpretation
- Transcription
Clinical Research
We provide end-to-end linguistic validation services for clinical outcome assessments (COAs), including licensing, adaptation, and translation across diverse therapeutic areas. Our expert team ensures the highest data quality by translating and validating patient-reported (PRO), clinician-reported (ClinRO), observer-reported (ObsRO), and performance-based (PerfO) outcomes.
From cultural adaptation and cognitive debriefing to regulatory support and quality control, we follow ISPOR best practices and industry standards to deliver precise, culturally relevant, and reliable COA solutions tailored to your global needs.
- Complex global market studies
- Maximize value for sponsors
- Global patient recruitment and communication
- Regulatory compliance
- Time and cost pressures
- Secure data management
- Quality
- COA Licensing
- Copyright Management Services
- Concept Elicitation Interviews
- Translatability Assessments
- Cultural Adaptation
- Harmonization
- Clinician Review
- Cognitive Debriefing
- COA Libraries
- Interview Transcription and Translation
- Usability Testing
- eCOA Integration and Migration
- Research Abstracts / Posters / Manuscripts
Medical Devices
Whether for clinical professionals or patients, medical devices always come with instructions, labels, packaging and other highly important content. The quality of translations for these materials is crucial. It not only ensures correct and safe usage of the devices but also guarantees compliance with local and regional regulatory requirements.
- Evolving regulatory demands
- User documentation and labeling
- Global markets and local requirements
✓ Consulting on global regulatory environment
✓ User documentation and labeling
- IFUs (Instructions for Use)
- DFUs (Directions for Use)
- Maintenance & user manuals
- Packaging content
- UI and mobile apps
- Quick reference guides
- Product labeling
✓ Global content strategies for long term, scalable efficiencies
✓ Content authoring
✓ Staffing and business process outsourcing
- Labeling management
- Program management
- Systems administration
- BOM management
- Artwork specialist support
✓ Connectivity and automated workflows
✓ Machine translation, AI and other cutting-edge computer aided technology
✓ Customer portal for easy access to KPIs, MT and other linguistic assets
A Complete Ecosystem of Solutions and Services
In full compliance with the regulatory demands of health authorities worldwide.
Precise, secure and fast translations - all at the click of a button with the help of our wide range of translation connectors.
Are you a Veeva user? Our connector is designed to streamline your translation workflows - all within your Veeva Vault.
Frequently asked questions
New to localization for life sciences? We have answers.
Localization ensures accurate adaptation of life science content to target markets, improving reach, accessibility and compliance.
Translation and localization is crucial for life sciences organizations to effectively communicate with global audiences and meet regulatory requirements.
Content that needs to be localized includes clinical trial documents, labeling, packaging, software, marketing materials and more.
Localization improves life sciences safety by ensuring accurate translation of crucial medical information, reducing risks and misunderstandings.
Subject-matter experts, rigorous QA processes, and industry leading adherence to ISO standards help us to ensure accurate translations.
Yes, we can prioritize translating urgent requests in life sciences to meet critical timelines and ensure timely communication in different languages.
We maintain strict confidentiality in technical life sciences documents with NDAs, secure infrastructure, and adherence to privacy regulations.
Costs for life sciences localization vary based on project scope, language pairs, content volume, and specific requirements. Contact us for a personalized quote.
Tech and AI aid life sciences localization by streamlining processes, improving consistency, and enhancing translation accuracy and efficiency.