From clinical data to adverse event reports, we deliver translations that meet global regulatory standards
Pharmaceutical & pharmacovigilance
Pharmaceutical translation:
Clearer pathways to patient care
Language you can
trust with your lives
In the pharmaceutical and pharmacovigilance areas, accuracy in translation is vital as it directly impacts patient safety and well-being. Precise translations of crucial documents ensure that patients receive the correct information about their medication and treatment and adverse events are reported clearly and consistently. This clarity fosters trust and enables informed decisions, leading to better outcomes.
Our workflow incorporates stringent quality checks throughout the entire process. As one of the first translation agencies ever certified to ISO 17100, we ensure every translation undergoes independent translation, revision, and quality assurance. Beyond the standard, we offer customizable workflows that can include multiple forward and back translations, user testing, and in-country reviews.
Technology that increases quality and efficiency
As technology advances, it’s becoming more and more economical to increase accuracy and lower turnaround times. We combine the strongest technologies with human expertise. Our experts take care of checking the subject matter, while our expansive translation technology can cover:
– Terminology management. We build a glossary of your most common terms and check all your translations against this. Specifically against the MedDRA, US and European Pharmacopeia, and the EU’s EDQM Standard Terms database, as well as other authoritative sources.
– Translation memory. A database of everything you translate. It means we can recycle translated text to save time and cost, by checking and retrieving content from all the translations you’ve already done and validated.
– Automation. We can use custom AI models trained on medical texts to automatically OCR and translate, allowing our human experts time to focus on accuracy and ease of comprehension.
Translations for every pharma need
With over 20 years experience in the life sciences, over 12,000 linguists, and 330+ language pairs, we can help make sure your translation is word perfect. Whatever the content.
Documentation.
Protocols, Adverse events, Patient information leaflets (PILs), SAEs, SARs & SUSARs, ICFs.
Trials.
Clinical trials, researcher guides, reports, and methodologies and COAs, PROs, ClinROs etc.
Education.
Brochures, websites, and product information.
Frequently Asked Questions
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How can Geo Language Services mitigate accuracy risks in a translation in pharma?
Through specialist linguist assignment, terminology management against authoritative references (MedDRA, ICH dictionaries, EDQM Standard Terms, INN), the ISO 17100 mandatory revision step, and — for higher-risk content — additional review by a clinical or pharmaceutical SME. Risk is matched to process: a routine SOP translation and a regulatory submission don’t get the same workflow.
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When providing a translation for pharmaceutical industry, how does Geo Language Services harness AI speed combined with expert human review?
By using AI where it’s safe and human translation where it isn’t. High-volume, structured pharma content — internal documentation, training materials, recurring report templates, certain regulatory dossier sections — suits a secure AI-aided workflow with expert pharma post-editors. Patient-facing materials, clinical outcome assessments, high-risk regulator-facing content and brand-led work stay on a full human pathway.
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Does Geo Language Services provide pharma translation services?
Yes. Pharma is one of our core verticals — we work with pharmaceutical sponsors, biotech, CROs, generics manufacturers and pharma services companies on the full document set: regulatory submissions, clinical trial documentation, pharmacovigilance, manufacturing and quality (GxP), medical affairs, market access, and patient and HCP-facing materials.
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What type of qualifications do Geo Language Services linguists hold for pharma translations?
Pharma linguists typically combine professional translation qualifications with relevant subject expertise — clinicians, pharmacists, life sciences graduates, regulatory professionals and former industry staff. For specialist sub-areas (oncology, rare disease, vaccines, biologics, ATMPs, pharmacovigilance) we assign linguists with documented experience in that specific area.
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Can Geo Language Services automatically OCR?
Yes. Where source content arrives as scanned PDFs or images — historical regulatory documents, AERs, scanned source files — we run OCR as part of the project intake, with manual verification by a linguist before translation starts. We do not translate uncorrected OCR output, as recognition errors propagate through the translation if uncaught.