Life Sciences Regulatory Services

Regulatory Submission Translation Services

Specialized multilingual support for global regulatory submissions—from source-content readiness and terminology governance through translation, review, formatting, QA, and submission-ready delivery.

Sesen helps pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and life sciences organizations keep complex submission content accurate, consistent, controlled, and connected across documents, languages, versions, and health authority interactions.

Life SciencesSpecialized
ISO 17100Certified
ISO 9001 & ISO 13485Certified
150+Languages

A Regulatory Submission Is More Than a Collection of Documents

Regulatory submissions bring together scientific, clinical, quality, manufacturing, safety, administrative, and product information that must tell a consistent story.

Product names, study identifiers, endpoints, units, CMC terminology, safety language, references, abbreviations, and approved wording can recur throughout a dossier. When materials are translated independently without coordinated controls, inconsistencies can multiply across documents and languages.

Sesen approaches regulatory submission translation at the submission level—aligning terminology, source references, prior translations, language assets, versions, and reviewer decisions so multilingual content remains connected as a complete body of regulatory evidence.

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ONE SUBMISSION Thousands of connected language decisions.
Terminology

Align product, clinical, CMC, safety, and regulatory terms.

References

Use approved translations and authoritative language assets.

Versions

Maintain continuity as source content changes.

Review

Capture approved decisions for later documents and updates.

From Source Content to Submission-Ready Delivery

A controlled multilingual submission workflow connects people, terminology, content, versions, review, formatting, and delivery requirements from the beginning.

01

Submission Readiness

Align submission type, target markets, languages, source status, milestones, review requirements, available references, and delivery specifications before multilingual production begins.

02

Content & Reference Alignment

Identify approved terminology, previous submissions, existing translations, current labeling, translation memory, study references, and other authoritative language assets.

03

Terminology Governance

Establish controlled product, compound, clinical, CMC, safety, and regulatory terminology that can be applied consistently across documents and languages.

04

Specialized Translation

Assign qualified life sciences linguists according to language pair, document type, subject matter, and intended regulatory use, with parallel workstreams where timelines require them.

05

Regulatory & Linguistic Review

Review meaning, terminology, consistency, completeness, and target-language quality, while integrating client, affiliate, medical, scientific, or in-country reviewers where required.

06

Formatting & Technical Preparation

Prepare multilingual content for the required document environment while preserving tables, headings, references, numbering, callouts, and other content relationships.

Regulatory Submission Formatting
07

Final Quality Assurance

Check terminology, numbers, units, omissions, references, repeated content, formatting, version alignment, language completeness, and file integrity before delivery.

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Submission-Ready Delivery

Reconcile final multilingual files against the agreed scope and organize deliverables for the client's required submission workflow and subsequent regulatory use.

Authority Questions Clarifications Amendments Updated Content Lifecycle Maintenance

Multilingual Support Across the Regulatory Submission

Sesen supports the document categories that bring scientific evidence, product quality, clinical data, safety information, and market-specific requirements together within global regulatory programs.

Applications & Regulatory Dossiers

Multilingual support for major application pathways and supporting filing content.

  • IND
  • NDA
  • BLA
  • ANDA
  • MAA
  • CTA
  • IMPD
  • Amendments, supplements, variations & renewals

CTD & eCTD Content

Connected translation support across the Common Technical Document framework.

  • Module 1 regional content
  • Module 2 summaries
  • Module 3 quality / CMC
  • Module 4 nonclinical
  • Module 5 clinical
  • Quality Overall Summary (QOS)
  • Supporting tables & references
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Clinical & Scientific Evidence

Submission-related clinical and scientific documentation supporting safety and efficacy evidence.

  • Clinical study reports
  • Study protocols
  • Investigator brochures
  • Clinical summaries
  • Statistical documentation
  • Supporting scientific reports
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CMC & Quality Content

Specialized scientific and technical content where terminology continuity is especially important.

  • Manufacturing descriptions
  • Specifications
  • Analytical methods
  • Validation documentation
  • Formulation content
  • Quality documentation
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Product Information & Labeling

Regulated product information that may evolve throughout regulatory review and lifecycle maintenance.

  • Prescribing information
  • SmPCs
  • PILs / package leaflets
  • Package inserts
  • Regulated product information
  • Labeling updates
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Safety & Risk Documentation

Safety and risk-management content spanning clinical development, submission, and post-market activity.

  • RMPs
  • DSURs
  • PSURs / PBRERs
  • Safety summaries
  • Risk communication
  • Supporting pharmacovigilance content
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Health Authority Communications & Lifecycle Content

Language continuity for the regulatory interactions and updates that follow the initial filing.

  • Authority questions
  • Requests for information
  • Deficiency responses
  • Clarification packages
  • Amendments & variations
  • Updated submission content

Maintain Alignment Across CTD and eCTD Content

CTD modules are structurally distinct but scientifically and linguistically interconnected. Sesen helps maintain terminology, references, study identifiers, units, conclusions, and approved wording across the dossier.

Module 1

Administrative & Regional

Region-specific content, forms, product information, and administrative documentation.

Module 2

Summaries & Overviews

Quality, nonclinical, and clinical summaries that synthesize information found elsewhere in the dossier.

Module 3

Quality / CMC

Drug substance, drug product, manufacturing, controls, specifications, methods, stability, and related quality content.

Module 4

Nonclinical

Nonclinical study reports and supporting pharmacology, pharmacokinetic, and toxicology content.

Module 5

Clinical

Clinical study reports and supporting evidence relating to safety, efficacy, and clinical development.

Product terminology Study identifiers Manufacturing terms Endpoints Units & references

One Submission. Connected Language Decisions.

Regulatory content can evolve over years and involve authors, functions, affiliates, reviewers, vendors, markets, and multiple submission cycles. Maintaining consistency requires a connected language system—not isolated file handling.

The goal: a multilingual submission that reads as a coordinated body of regulatory work rather than a series of independently translated documents.

Controlled Language Assets Terminology · references · approved decisions
Module summaries
CMC
Clinical
Safety
Labeling
Authority responses

Terminology Governance

Document and apply approved product, clinical, scientific, CMC, safety, and regulatory terminology across the submission.

Translation Memory

Identify and reuse previously translated and approved content where appropriate to improve continuity across recurring material.

Reference Alignment

Bring prior submissions, approved labeling, glossaries, study documentation, and other authoritative references into the workflow.

Version Control

Maintain awareness of revised source documents, rolling updates, and multilingual files as submission content evolves.

Reviewer Decisions

Capture approved feedback so later documents and updates can benefit from language decisions already made.

Cross-Document QA

Check recurring terminology, numbers, units, references, and repeated content across related files before delivery.

Coordinate the Multilingual Submission as One Program

Large submissions can contain hundreds of documents, multiple source releases, parallel language workstreams, compressed milestones, and reviewers across functions and regions.

For complex programs, Sesen can serve as the central multilingual coordination layer connecting regulated content, professional linguists, reviewers, language assets, and delivery requirements.

Submission-Level Planning

Define multilingual scope, target markets, languages, dependencies, references, review requirements, and milestones at the program level.

Parallel Workstreams

Coordinate multiple documents and languages simultaneously while maintaining common terminology and quality controls.

Rolling Source Updates

Manage revised source files and staged releases without restarting the language process each time content changes.

Reviewer Coordination

Integrate regulatory, medical, scientific, affiliate, linguistic, and in-country review into structured feedback cycles.

Terminology Control

Maintain approved terminology and reviewer decisions across teams, files, versions, and languages.

Program Visibility

Keep teams informed about what is in translation, review, revision, formatting, QA, or ready for delivery.

Final Reconciliation

Reconcile agreed deliverables before completion so required files and languages are accounted for.

Support for Global Regulatory Markets

Translation requirements can vary by product, market, submission pathway, content type, procedure, and stage of the regulatory lifecycle. Sesen configures multilingual support around the intended submission environment rather than applying one generic process to every jurisdiction.

North America FDA · Health Canada
Europe EMA · EU/EEA national authorities · MHRA · Swissmedic
Asia-Pacific PMDA · NMPA · MFDS · TGA
Latin America ANVISA · COFEPRIS · INVIMA · other national authorities
Middle East & Global Markets Arabic and other required languages aligned with market and regulatory workflow needs

Sesen aligns the multilingual scope with your regulatory team, target market, submission pathway, document set, intended use, and applicable language requirements.

Stay Consistent Beyond the Initial Submission

Health authority review can generate questions, requests for clarification, updated analyses, revised product information, deficiency responses, and other content that connects directly to the original filing.

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Initial Submission

Terminology, translations, references, and language assets are established.

2

Authority Review

Questions and comments can introduce new regulatory content and new timelines.

3

Response Package

New language needs to remain consistent with the original dossier while accurately reflecting the response.

4

Updated Content

Supporting documents, summaries, labeling, or submission sections may require revision.

5

Approved Language Assets

Accepted terminology and reviewer decisions can be retained for future use.

6

Lifecycle Updates

Variations, supplements, renewals, safety updates, and other changes continue the content lifecycle.

By maintaining terminology databases, translation memories, reference materials, reviewer decisions, and version history, Sesen can help preserve multilingual continuity from the initial submission into later regulatory interactions.

Professional Regulatory Expertise, Supported by Intelligent Technology

Technology can improve speed, consistency, and control across complex regulatory translation workflows, but regulated content still requires professional judgment.

Sesen combines specialized life sciences linguists with translation technology, terminology management, quality automation, and AI-assisted workflows. AI supports the process; qualified human linguists and reviewers remain central to contextual decisions, review, and final quality control.

Controlled Content Reuse

Identify existing approved translations and recurring content that can be reused appropriately to improve consistency and reduce avoidable rework.

Terminology Intelligence

Apply approved product, clinical, scientific, CMC, safety, and regulatory terminology consistently across large document sets.

AI-Assisted Quality Checks

Use automation and AI-assisted analysis to help flag potential issues involving terminology, numbers, units, completeness, repeated content, formatting, and references.

Version-Aware Workflows

Use translation memory and controlled language assets to manage rolling source releases, revisions, and recurring submission content.

Quality Controls Built for Regulated Content

Sesen combines specialized life sciences expertise, documented quality workflows, terminology controls, review, secure project handling, and technology-enabled QA for multilingual regulatory content.

ISO-Certified Quality

Sesen maintains ISO 17100, ISO 9001, and ISO 13485 certifications supporting its quality framework for life sciences translation.

Specialized Life Sciences Linguists

Linguists are selected according to language, subject matter, content type, and project requirements.

Independent Review

Where included in the workflow, a second qualified professional reviews meaning, terminology, consistency, completeness, and target-language quality.

Terminology & Reference Controls

Approved terminology, prior translations, reference content, and reviewer decisions can be incorporated into the translation environment.

Version Traceability

Structured project workflows help maintain continuity as source files and multilingual deliverables evolve.

Secure Project Workflows

Controlled file handling, access management, confidentiality practices, and documented project processes support sensitive regulatory content.

150+ Regulatory Translation Languages

Sesen supports major European, Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, Nordic, and Central and Eastern European languages, with language teams aligned to the target market, subject matter, content type, and project requirements.

Case Study

Multilingual Regulatory Submission Support for Global Biopharma

A global biopharmaceutical organization required coordinated multilingual support across a regulatory submission program. Sesen established a structured workflow combining specialized regulatory translation, terminology management, reference alignment, reviewer coordination, version control, quality assurance, and final formatting.

The program shows how coordinated submission translation can keep language assets, reviewers, content versions, and production requirements connected throughout a complex multilingual filing.

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Regulatory Submission Resources

Practical guidance for preparing, governing, reviewing, and maintaining multilingual regulatory content.

Regulatory Readiness

Regulatory Submission Translation Readiness Checklist

Practical guidance for defining language scope, source readiness, terminology, review requirements, formatting, target markets, and delivery expectations before translation begins.

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AI & Regulatory Operations

AI and Submission-Ready Regulatory Content

Explore how AI-assisted workflows can support terminology, consistency, QA, content reuse, and multilingual preparation while maintaining structured professional review.

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Regulatory Submission Translation FAQs

Answers to common questions about submission types, CTD/eCTD content, terminology, reviewers, updates, AI-assisted workflows, formatting, timelines, and global language support.

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What are regulatory submission translation services?

Regulatory submission translation services support the multilingual content used to prepare, file, review, update, and maintain regulatory submissions for global markets. Depending on the program, this can include application documents, CTD/eCTD content, CMC documentation, clinical evidence, safety information, product information, labeling, health authority correspondence, amendments, and lifecycle updates. Sesen combines specialized life sciences translation with terminology governance, independent review, version control, formatting support, quality assurance, and centralized project management.

Which regulatory submission types does Sesen support?

Sesen supports multilingual content for a wide range of regulatory applications and dossiers, including INDs, NDAs, BLAs, ANDAs, MAAs, CTAs, IMPDs, amendments, supplements, variations, renewals, and related supporting documentation. The specific language and document scope depends on the product, market, submission pathway, regulatory procedure, and stage of the product lifecycle.

Does Sesen translate CTD and eCTD content?

Yes. Sesen supports multilingual content across CTD/eCTD Modules 1–5, including administrative and regional information, summaries and overviews, CMC and quality documentation, nonclinical content, clinical content, and supporting submission materials.

CTD & eCTD Translation Services
How does Sesen maintain terminology across regulatory submission documents?

Sesen can align approved client glossaries, terminology databases, translation memories, previous submissions, existing translations, labeling, study references, and reviewer decisions before and during production. Controlled terminology is then applied across relevant documents and languages, while QA processes help identify potential inconsistencies in recurring terms and related content.

Can Sesen support rolling submissions and source-document updates?

Yes. Regulatory documents often change while multilingual work is already underway. Sesen can manage revised source files, rolling releases, and subsequent updates through version-aware workflows designed to retain approved terminology, translated content, reference materials, and prior reviewer decisions wherever appropriate.

Can our internal regulatory or in-country reviewers participate in the translation process?

Yes. Sesen can incorporate client regulatory teams, medical and scientific reviewers, local affiliates, and in-country reviewers into structured review workflows. Approved feedback can be captured and applied consistently to related content so reviewer decisions continue to inform subsequent documents and updates.

Can Sesen support health authority questions and response packages?

Yes. Sesen can support multilingual health authority correspondence, requests for information, deficiency responses, clarification packages, amendments, updated submission content, and related regulatory communications. When Sesen has supported the original submission, existing terminology, translation memory, references, and approved reviewer decisions can help maintain continuity during subsequent authority interactions.

Does Sesen provide regulatory submission formatting?

Yes. Sesen supports multilingual formatting and technical document preparation so translated content remains usable in the required document environment. More complex formatting requirements can be supported through Sesen's dedicated regulatory submission formatting service.

Regulatory Submission Formatting
How does Sesen use AI in regulatory submission translation?

Sesen uses AI and automation selectively to support functions such as terminology analysis, content reuse, consistency checking, quality assurance, and workflow efficiency. For regulated content, AI does not replace professional linguistic judgment. Qualified life sciences linguists and reviewers remain responsible for contextual translation decisions, review, and final quality control.

How does Sesen manage consistency across large multilingual submissions?

Sesen combines submission-level project management with controlled terminology, translation memory, authoritative reference materials, version management, reviewer feedback, and cross-document quality checks. These controls help keep recurring terminology, numbers, units, references, study identifiers, and other shared content aligned as documents move through translation, review, revision, and delivery.

Can Sesen handle multilingual submissions with compressed timelines?

Yes. Depending on the scope and source readiness, Sesen can organize parallel language and document workstreams to support time-sensitive regulatory programs. Early planning is especially important because terminology preparation, reference alignment, reviewer availability, source-document changes, formatting, and QA can affect the critical path.

Which languages does Sesen support for regulatory submissions?

Sesen supports regulatory translation in 150+ languages, including major European, Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, Nordic, and Central and Eastern European languages. Language teams are aligned according to the target market, subject matter, content type, and project requirements.

What should we provide before starting a regulatory submission translation project?

Helpful inputs include the submission type and intended markets, target languages, document inventory, source files and expected updates, regulatory timeline, existing translations, approved terminology or glossaries, current labeling or product information, relevant previous submissions, internal or in-country review requirements, and formatting and delivery specifications. For complex submissions, Sesen can review the available materials with your team and help define an appropriate multilingual workflow before production begins.

Move Your Global Submission Forward With Confidence

Tell us about your submission type, target markets, languages, content, review process, existing language assets, formatting needs, and timeline. Sesen can help design the multilingual workflow around your regulatory program.