Hello! My name is Elisa Martínez-Aznar, MSc MITI MCIL & Chartered Translator.

As a kid, I was always fascinated by medicine, but that all-so-common fear of needles steered me away from a career in the field. However, it remained my passion through the years, and I carried on learning as much as I could. And in 2009, I graduated with an MSc in Scientific, Technical and Medical Translation, passed with Distinction, from Imperial College London. Who would have thought I would end up devoting most of my adult years to it?!

Since then, I have been working in this industry for over 13 years as a Medical and Pharmaceutical Translator. Over time however, I couldn’t help but get frustrated with the way some agencies were serving their clients in the field. These agencies were mainly generalists unconcerned with providing the most accurate translations for their clients in a field where accuracy is of the utmost importance. Projects would be given to novice translators with little specialized subject knowledge, and would often undergo only a single proofreading.

Their emphasis always seemed to be on increasing their profits: not including enough time for research and several runs of proofreading, squeezing out highly qualified translators and relying on cheaper alternatives. This often yielded substandard results that the clients would not be aware of as it was in another language!

I founded Synaptic Translations as a way to provide a highly-specialized service for medical and pharmaceutical companies, using only highly-qualified translators with experience in the medical field. Our translators are true professionals, and we want to treat them as such, providing them with the best work environment to guarantee they can produce translations of the highest quality by giving them adequate deadlines, honouring their rates and providing them with the support they need to bring out their best.