Speaker | IJET-31 (June 24-25, 2023) | International Japanese-English Translation Conference

Ben Tompkins

Ben Tompkins lives in beautiful Fukuoka, Japan, where he began translating professionally in 1994. Ben specializes in pharmaceutical and biomedical translation. He owns Tompkins Biomedical Communications, a provider of translation and other language services to pharmaceutical companies, research organizations, and universities. Ben served as President of the Japan Association of Translators (JAT) from June 2016 to June 2017 and has helped organize three IJET conferences in and outside Japan. He can be reached at [email protected].

Sessions

A Deep Dive into Templates, Guidelines, and other Resources for Biomedical Translators (JATPHARMA)

If you work in pharma or biomedical translation, you’ve probably encountered resources such as the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, ICH guidelines, and 日本の薬事行政 (Pharmaceutical Administration and Regulations in Japan) during terminology searches. Maybe you’ve even read a few sections in some of these monstrous documents before getting bored. But they deserve a closer look, for the information they...