Member since Jul '09

Working languages:
English to Italian
Spanish to Italian
French to Italian

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Bruno Depascale
Lost in translation? Not here.

Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Local time: 13:39 CEST (GMT+2)

Native in: Italian Native in Italian
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Bio
🎯 Connecting with Italian-speaking clinicians, patients, and customers through clear, compliant, and compelling content goes beyond simple translation; it demands the right partner.

 

🔬 Over 15 years, I've built a practice where medical expertise, marketing, and language technology intersect. I collaborate with pharma, biotech, med-tech, CROs, healthcare startups, and medical communications agencies as a translator, transcreator, medical writer, and language consultant—also serving as the expert-in-the-loop who designs, oversees, and quality-ensures AI-assisted workflows. For high-stakes medical and regulatory content, I am the human responsible for accuracy, compliance, and cultural relevance, not just fluency.


💻 Beyond translation services, I develop language technology solutions for healthcare: I created Hermes Medica (hermesmedica.net), an AI-powered platform that translates medical content, explains complex terminology, and supports clinical decision-making for both professionals and patients, and Hermes Medica QA, a specialized tool for quality assurance in medical translation workflows.

 

💡 Transcreation deserves its own term. When your campaign, product page, or patient material needs to do more than translate into Italian, I reconstruct the message from the inside, preserving intent, tone, and brand voice while making it feel local. Content that only translates rarely persuades; in life sciences, persuasion and trust are essential.

 

 What this means for your projects: 

 

 Accurate, consistent, and audit-ready clinical, regulatory, and medical device content in Italian


 Culturally resonant marketing and patient-facing copy—feeling, not word-for-word


 Linguistic validation and cognitive debriefing for instruments, labels, and patient-reported outcomes


 Hybrid workflows that combine human expertise and AI for speed and volume, with a senior specialist responsible for each output


 AI supervision, prompt engineering, and MT/LLM guardrails for organizations scaling language tech


 A strategic language consultancy for those seeking more than a vendor—a true partner who understands your market

 

If you have upcoming projects in medicine, the life sciences, or science-driven communication, I’d be happy to discuss how I can support you. Feel free to reach out.


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Work Experience

2014 to present: Senior translator, project manager, reviewer, copywriter, and transcreator at Hermes Language Services (Lecce)
 2006 to present: Freelance translator and reviewer

2010: In-house medical translator at Alfa-international, Rome 

2009: In-house translator and reviewer at Intermediate, Rome.
 

Expertise

 • Abstracts, reports and congressional posters

Agreements for clinical trials

Clinical Trial Protocols

Clinical reviews

Investigator brochures

Marketing promotional material

Media releases

Medical questionnaires

Medical representatives' training material

Informed consent forms and information sheets

Package leaflets

Periodic safety update reports and clinical overviews

Product information brochures

Product monographs

Scientific articles

Summaries of product characteristic (SPCs)

User's manuals

Imaging software manuals

Education

2009:

Master Degree in "Medical and Pharmaceutical Translation" at Communication Trend Italia, Milan.

University degree in "Foreign Languages and Literatures" at the University of Lecce.

Thesis title: "Corpora and Translation Studies"

Continuing professional development

2026
The Neuroscience of Personal Excellence (May 2026), University of Colorado Boulder 
Learning and memory in the brain: a guide for teachers - University of Cambridge (April 2026) 
The science of mind and decision making - University of Cambridge (April 2026) 
The Psychology of Emotions: an introduction to embodied cognition - University of Cambridge (March 2026) 
Content Creation With Generative AI - Coursera (February 2026) 
The neuropsychology of decision making - University of Cambridge (February 2026) 
Maximize Productivity With AI Tools - Google (February 2026) 
Discover the Art of Prompting - Google (February 2026)

2025
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology - University of Cambridge (December 2025) 
Writing in the Sciences - Stanford University (November 2025) 
Word: funzionalità avanzate per la scrittura professionale - Edulia, dal Sapere Treccani (October 2025) 

2018:

Participation in the AITI conference:
"I termini non si traducono! Migliori pratiche terminologiche per traduttori e interpreti" (June 9, 2018 – Bari) 

2017:

Participation in the AITI conference:
Ricaduta o recidiva? Trabocchetti della terminologia medica 3.0 (June 17, 2017) 

2014:

Introduction to Psychology as a Science - Georgia Institute of Technology (completed with distinction)

Participation in the Proz.com International translators' conference (June 28-29, 2014)

CAT and terminology management tools


SDL Trados, Memoq, XTM, Memsource, Smartling, Localize, Xbench

Phone 1: (+39) 393.6139760


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English to Italian161
Spanish to Italian8
Top general fields (PRO)
Medical93
Tech/Engineering37
Other24
Science12
Law/Patents3
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Medical (general)47
Medical: Instruments22
Medical: Pharmaceuticals19
Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)8
Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng8
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Total projects27
With client feedback16
Corroborated16
100% positive (16 entries)
positive16
neutral0
negative0

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Translation22
Editing/proofreading5
Language pairs
English to Italian26
2
Spanish to Italian1
Specialty fields
Medical: Pharmaceuticals13
Medical (general)6
Medical: Health Care3
Environment & Ecology3
Medical: Instruments3
Medical: Dentistry1
Marketing1
Medical: Cardiology1
Genetics1
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Energy / Power Generation2
Engineering (general)1
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Zoology1
Geography1
Tourism & Travel1
Media / Multimedia1
Psychology1
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