As a freelancer, I have clients that include a major B2B healthcare report company, medcomms agencies, non-profit healthcare organisations and academic publishers, the latter of which I have proofed biomedical and biological textbooks for.

My degree was in Applied Biology, and I specialised in industrial microbiology, biotechnology, immunology and infectious diseases, doing my final year project on antibiotic production in Streptomyces.

After graduating, I joined Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science), as editor of Current Advances in Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology, which involved scanning and indexing all the biomedical literature.

I then joined the publications unit (later Syndicated Analytics) of IMS Health (now IQVIA), a global company that supports the pharmaceutical industry. There I worked on in-depth profiles of the leading pharma, generics and biotechnology companies, covering everything from finances and M&A to research and development. During my time at IMS, I also edited internal and external newsletters, wrote various articles (including one for a peer-reviewed journal) and was involved in the development and creation of online content.

As a result of the above experience, I am completely at home dealing with issues surrounding the healthcare industry, both in commercial and scientific terms. I’m familiar with the ATC system, therapy areas, many diseases (including autoimmune disorders and cancers) and medical terminology.

Much of my writing was proprietary, but you can see some publically available examples through the links below:

Chemical & Engineering News review of the pharma industry

Download article on generics industry restructuring, Journal of Generic Medicines, 2005

Download Scrip annual review of 2005