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Our Story

Avantpage Life Sciences provides language services to companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and healthcare fields. Our goal is to help our clients get from product concept to launch without delay and within budget. We do this because we believe that everyone should benefit from advances in science and medicine. With this as our focus, our clients rely on us for language expertise and for help navigating the highly regulated path to market. 

Avantpage Life Sciences is closely tied to our parent company Avantpage Inc., which was founded in 1996 and provides translation, interpretation, and other language services in the United States. Avantpage works with a similar purpose: to help our clients overcome language barriers and ensure that everyone has access to healthcare and government services, no matter which language they speak.  

Our 2017 expansion into the European market gave us the opportunity to bring our expertise, our ISO-certified processes, and our global team to benefit a new group of clients. Life sciences translation requires the same deep industry knowledge, strict adherence to process, and commitment to high quality that has been distinguishing Avantpage’s work for the past 30 years.  

With offices in Europe and the Americas, a global team of project experts, and a vast network of specialised linguists, we bring our clients peace of mind as they take their product to the international marketplace. Three decades later, Avantpage’s tools and technologies have changed but our focus on these sectors is the same.

Values

Avantpage Life Sciences is committed to providing a quality product, a seamless project journey, and excellent customer service. We do this by remaining true to our core values. 

Rigour

What we do, we do well. In every project, every step of the way. 

Opportunity

We provide you with the opportunity to reach a global audience. 

Trust

We give you peace of mind and offer a true partnership. 

Our Team

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Luis Miguel

Co-Founder & President
Luis founded Avantpage in 1996, driven by his passion to see immigrants achieve equal access to healthcare and public services. Under his leadership, Avantpage has grown in the United States and Latin America, working with some of the biggest names in healthcare and government. In 2017, Luis cofounded Avantpage Life Sciences, where he now brings his vision to the European market. In the highly-regulated life sciences sector, Luis aims to give peace of mind to clients by extending the linguistic expertise and world class customer service for which Avantpage is known.
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Vera Hooijdonk

Co-Founder & Managing Director
As Co-founder and Managing Director at Avantpage Life Sciences, Vera brings her operational, business development, and leadership expertise to the benefit of our European life sciences and healthcare clients. Vera supports the entire team in all aspects of our business activity. Whether through her knowledge of translation technology, optimization, automation, team management, or client relations, her role is vital to each of our unique client partnerships. She has dedicated herself to learning, understanding, and tailoring our services to help our clients navigate language services in this highly regulated market.

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