General information:

I have a PhD in chemistry with four years' postdoctoral research and a further 15 years of editing/proofreading experience, first in-house (4 years) with Wiley-VCH in Germany and since then on a freelance basis. I have been translating (ES>EN) for 12 years, specialising in chemistry, pharmaceuticals and medical research.

Recent translation projects:

• User manual for a chip for serotyping the 23 most common serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
• Performance-testing report and user manual for a DNA device for genotyping the allelic variants of 10 blood groups.
• “The use of Bromhexine for treating respiratory pathologies in veterinary medicine”.
• Clinical trial protocol: “xxxxx and xxxxx combination therapy for patients with active relapsing multiple sclerosis: A risk-benefit study”.
• Clinical trial protocol: “An open and randomised study of the efficacy and safety of xxxxx with respect to xxxxx in the treatment of moderate to severe psoriasis”.
• xxxxx in head and neck cancer: International scientific information

Translation volume:

2009 (to date): Approximate number of words translated: 400,000; manuscripts edited: 82.
2008: Approximate number of words translated: 420,000; manuscripts edited: 104; book chapters: 2; PhD theses: 1.
2007: Approximate number of words translated: 350,000; manuscripts edited: 165.

Translation resources:

• Word and document processing: Microsoft Office 2003/2007, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Photoshop, Chemdraw, ScanSoft OmniPage Pro.
• CAT software: Trados Studio 2009, Wordfast Pro.
• Other resources: Websters 11th Collegiate, Oxford English Dictionary, Diccionario de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua, Gran Diccionario Oxford (Spanish–English), Spanish–English Medical Dictionary (Onyria Herrera McElroy and Lola Grubb).