Why us?

From our Directors to the wider team, we share a broad knowledge of pharmaco-therapeutics and a practical insight into healthcare provision built on many years of working directly with the Industry and key stakeholders across many therapy areas. Most of us have extensive ‘big agency’ experience in medical communications and publishing, with backgrounds in clinical medicine and postdoctoral biomedical and scientific research.

Over the last 15 years our client base has grown exponentially – year-on-year – and we are now proud to be working direct-to-industry with 5 of the World's Top 50* international pharmaceutical companies, plus several new and emerging biotech and precision medicine companies, providing high-level consultancy and communication solutions to worldwide audiences.

Working closely with global pharmaceutical companies –based primarily in Europe and the US – we know what it takes to deliver the best and we take a personal pride in making sure we consistently achieve this.

We understand our clients’ products and goals, and we have the communication solutions needed to support them, the processes required to achieve them and the scientific knowledge and insights to develop and write them.

FOURWAVE provides a flexible expert resource specifically tailored to respond to each individual client’s brief efficiently, cost-effectively, and with focus and commitment.

What you see is what you get. Our Directors, and all our team, are fully hands-on when it comes to client service and project delivery. For larger projects and programmes we use our well-practiced leadership and project management skills and our network of specialist service providers and established independent consultants to build a team that meets the specific requirements of the project in hand.

We are also happy to work in partnership with your  preferred partners, should you have a need for specific skills or additional resources to complete your team.

(*By market capitalisation value, January 2024)

The team

Our in-house team has skills and expertise in strategic communication and publication planning, tactical plan development and implementation, medical writing and editing, editorial direction, client services, account direction and project management, business development, pharmaceutical marketing and consultancy and graphic design for print and digital delivery.

As and when required, we can draw on the capacity and expertise provided by our wider network of trusted professionals, including; events managers, AV service providers and print and production specialists.

We have a long and established track record in delivering medical communications services and consultancy to global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

With a proven track record in providing competent, reliable, informed, high-quality delivery, our entire enterprise has grown organically through referrals and repeat business within ongoing programmes. In compliance with contractual and confidentiality agreements we do not publish client lists or specific projects. However, please see below a small selection testimonials illustrating our clients' appreciation of our work.

Our collaborative, company-wide, 'hands-on', 'can-do' culture has no need of overpaid non-executive directors or multiple layers of costly, slow-moving – basically ineffective – management, so we can provide timely, targeted and highly cost-effective delivery across all our activities, all of the time!

Our expertise

While we don’t claim to be experts in everything, we do have a proven track record demonstrating our ability to apply ourselves to a diverse range of new topics and challenges, and to work out effective solutions to your medical communication challenges.

With expertise and experience spanning all the essential skills you would expect of your communications partners, our team has worked on long-term programmes in most major therapeutic fields and across the product lifecycle, from early-phase clinical development through launch and beyond.

In the last eight years our expertise in precision and personalised medicine has expanded massively - including gene therapy and radio-pharmaceuticals - where almost all of our accounts are currently in this space.

We also have wide-ranging experience spanning other therapy areas including; oncology (including molecularly targeted therapies, biomarkers and diagnostics), immunology (specifically multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis), diabetes, antibacterials, antivirals, respiratory medicine, cardiovascular medicine, mental health, gastroenterology, women’s health and in pharmacy practice and technology.  Additionally, we can provide expert support in health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), patient reported outcomes and qualitative research.

We actively follow the latest trends in pharmaceutical development as well as industry and professional standards and regulations for biomedical communication practices and interactions with authors and key experts, to ensure that our work and your projects are compliant with the latest best practice guidance.