Company prepared the launch of vaccine in extremely tight timeline. They needed help to prepare linguistically and medically correct product information texts in extremely tight timeline.
Success for the client – health for everyone
In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, a pharmaceutical company developed a new urgently needed COVID‑19 vaccine. To get through the marketing authorisation application process as smoothly as possible and to introduce the new vaccine to the Finnish market, they needed
- translations of the English product information texts into Finnish and Swedish
- both linguistic and medical review of all the material
- ready‑to‑use translated documents for the authority inspection
- a trustworthy linguistic partner that would be able to follow the tight timeline imposed by the EU health authorities.
Solution Offered by DRA
- Experienced DRA in house translators translated all materials and performed a linguistic review. Client specific translation memory was used. DRA Medical team was consulted in very complex text parts.
- After translations, DRA Medical team checked the medical correctness of texts.
- Due to tight timeline, all three steps were performed partly in parallel to be able to meet the tight timeline.
Benefits Delivered
- The client received fluent, medically correct high-quality translation, which was ready to be submitted to the authorities as such.
- The client managed to meet the tight timeline given by the authorities (only a few days).
- The marketing authorization was granted as planned and client was able to launch the much-awaited vaccine.
DRA’s wide-ranging linguistic and medical service offering and proven expertise in the pharmaceutical field made it an optimal partner for the challenging assignment.
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