Slowly. At the kitchen table.Every clause has to hold its shapewhen it crosses the water.We make sure it does.
Gentian Lane translates and localizes trial documents, consent forms and regulatory submissions into Spanish, Portuguese and French — validated, certified, invoiced per project.
Or call the desk: (650) 847-8235 · Mon–Fri 11am–4pm
“A consent form is a quiet promise. We make sure it is kept in every language.”
The gentian is the blue flower that opens only in full light. That is the standard. Nothing in your document should need shade.
Gentian Lane is a translation and localization desk in New York, NY for the people who run trials and file dossiers. Spanish, Portuguese, French. Clinical, patient-facing, regulatory. Nothing else.
Priced per word of source text. Invoiced once per project. Choose the weight your document has to bear.
$0.23 / word
Project minimum $390 · rush in 48 hours, +35%
Best for: protocols, investigator brochures, safety letters, label text.
$0.41 / word
Project minimum $1,340 · cognitive debrief with 5 native readers per language
Best for: consent forms, PROs and COAs, patient diaries, anything a patient must understand alone.
I felt blue this week.
Me sentí azul esta semana.
A patient reads this and wonders about the colour.
Me sentí decaído/a esta semana.READS AS INTENDED
Protocols, amendments, investigator brochures, CSR synopses, site letters. Terminology is locked once, then held for the length of the program.
From $0.23/wordminimum $390
quote protocolsICFs, assent forms, PROs, diaries, recruitment copy. Read aloud, tested with native readers, set at a level a tired person can manage.
From $0.41/wordminimum $1,340 · validated
quote a consent formLabeling, patient information leaflets, SmPC text, cover letters, module summaries — set into the template the agency expects.
From $0.27/wordminimum $520
quote a submissionAlready translated? We read it cold, mark where it stumbles, and certify what holds.
$96/hourcertificate alone $185 per document
send it for review| Document | Up to | Translated | Validated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consent form (ICF) | 5,000 words | 3 | 7 |
| Patient diary / PRO | 1,500 words | 3 | 8 |
| Protocol synopsis | 8,000 words | 4 | — |
| Label / patient leaflet | 6,000 words | 4 | 7 |
Longer files are quoted by the page. Rush in 48 hours is available at +35%.
Spanish for a clinic in the Bronx is not Spanish for a site in Madrid. We name the locale in the quote, and write to it.
Each stage has a name on it and a date beside it. When your QA team asks how a sentence got to its final form, the file can answer.
You send the source. A written quote reaches you by the next business day.
Two native linguists translate it apart, never comparing notes.
Reconciled into a single text, terms checked against your glossary.
Back-translated blind. Native readers say aloud where it snags.
Certificate issued, files delivered, one invoice follows.
Timings shown for a consent form of up to 5,000 words at validated weight. Translated-only projects close sooner.
Yes. Send the template with the source and we translate into it, returning Word, InDesign or PDF-source files in the same structure you gave us.
Each project closes with a signed certificate. Plan A gets a certificate of accuracy; Plan B gets a certificate of linguistic validation. Both name the languages, the stages completed and the source version, so an IRB or ethics committee can file it beside the document.
By the word of source text, with a project minimum. We count the file, put the figure in writing, and send one invoice per project.
Not yet. We would rather do three languages well than eleven badly. If you need another, we will point you to desks we would trust with our own forms.
Mon–Fri 11am–4pm, Eastern. Or write to info@gentianlane.com.
Tell us the document, the languages and the date the sites open. The quote comes back in writing.
512 W 136Th St Apt 5A
New York, NY 10031