Greetings!

July has been an incredibly exciting month at McElroy Translation as we have added two new business development managers to the team and are looking forward to a third addition in the near future. We welcome Lindsey Anderson to our life sciences division and Stahl Urban to our legal division. In addition to our growing sales department, we also want to congratulate Delia Dávila on her new position at McElroy as implementation manager. Among Delia's many new responsibilities are Plunet integration and training as well as developing and maintaining procedural and training manuals for ISO certification.

This month in eBuzz, we take a closer look at the life sciences industry. Translations for biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices make up a large portion of the work McElroy produces for this field. Learn more about what differentiates these areas from one another and the services we provide for each of them below.

And last but not least, congratulations to Spain on their World Cup victory. Now we can all get back to work!

S Nailuchshimi Pozhelaniyami,
Olga Pechnenko-Kopp
CEO, McElroy Translation

Featured Articles

Biotechnology
The biotechnology field is changing the practice of medicine. One important driver is an increasing emphasis on collaboration among companies and institutions. In turn, this is expanding the demand for highly specialized translation services.

Pharmaceuticals
Virtually all modern pharmaceutical products require translation services. The cost of bringing new medications to market is often so high that only the ability to secure exclusive legal rights and regulatory approval in desired treatment protocols across many countries justifies the expense beyond initial research. That requires translation at many, if not all, stages of drug development.

Medical Devices
The FDA and other regulatory bodies have detailed parameters¹ for what is considered a medical device, but a workable layman's definition might be: medical items used on or in a patient for treatment that are not purely drugs. Everything from syringes, wheelchairs, prosthetics, MRI machines, and heart valves to fullerene cages,² a nanotechnology structure so small it can cross the blood-brain barrier to deliver medication, are considered medical devices.