About Shaw Science Partners Inc.

Shaw Science Partners Inc. is a science agency that helps pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies explain the science behind new and emerging products. Since 1981, the company has combined scientific understanding, strategic thinking, and creative communications to help clients clarify how a product works, distinguish it within a competitive market, and communicate its value to professional and consumer audiences. Its work extends far beyond animation, bringing together scientific platforms, messaging, graphics, digital programs, training materials, and other tools built around a clear scientific strategy.

From a Medical Media Company to a Science Agency

Shaw Science Partners Inc. began in 1981 as a medical media company focused on helping pharmaceutical organizations explain the science behind innovative new products, including first-in-class therapies. As the needs of pharmaceutical clients evolved, the company expanded beyond media production to provide broader strategic support for new product launches. In 1999, the organization became Shaw Science Partners Inc., reflecting its growing role in helping companies develop and launch new products. The company began using the term “science agency” to describe an approach that combines scientific expertise, product strategy, communications, and creative execution within one organization.

Building Strategy Around the Science

Every project begins with understanding the product and the science behind it. Shaw Science Partners Inc. examines how the product works, what differentiates it, how it relates to available competition, and which scientific concepts are most important to communicate. That understanding becomes the foundation for messages, terminology, visual concepts, educational programs, launch materials, and digital communications. By defining the scientific strategy first, the team can select communication tools that support the message rather than allowing the format to determine the story.

The Science Story® Methodology

Shaw Science Partners Inc. developed its proprietary Science Story® methodology to organize complicated product science into a focused and compelling narrative. The process helps establish how a product works, why its science matters, and how it can be differentiated within the treatment landscape. A Science Story® may be supported by a scientific platform, Reasons to Believe, key messages, a defined lexicon, and Visual Nomenclature®. Together, these intellectual assets provide a foundation that can guide communications across different audiences, formats, and stages of product development.

More Than Medical Animation

Animation is one of the tools Shaw Science Partners Inc. uses, but it does not define the full scope of the agency’s work. The company develops the strategic and intellectual foundation needed to communicate the science before determining how that information should be presented.

Depending on the initiative, the resulting Science Story® may be expressed through:

Scientific platforms and messaging
Graphics and medical animation
Video production
Interactive web programs
Speaker slide programs
MSL and sales training
Clinical simulations
Patient management experiences
Websites and webcasts
Augmented and virtual reality
Exhibits and symposia

This integrated approach connects scientific strategy with the tools used to communicate it.

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Scientific, Strategic, and Creative Expertise

Shaw Science Partners Inc. brings together physicians, scientists, pharmacists, marketers, strategists, writers, computer artists, animators, and digital professionals. Scientific and clinical specialists work to understand the product at an expert level, while strategic and creative team members determine how the most important concepts can be communicated clearly. Scriptwriting also plays an important role in translating complex information into structured narratives for animation, video, presentations, training, and digital programs. Keeping scientific strategy, writing, and production closely connected helps preserve the central message as it moves into different formats.

Supporting Pharmaceutical Product Launches

Shaw Science Partners Inc. works with pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies preparing to introduce new products, as well as organizations communicating established products. Its prelaunch capabilities include scientific platform development, message and lexicon development, thought leader programs, advisory boards, market research, MSL training, strategic communications planning, exhibits, symposia, and speaker slide programs. The company has contributed to more than 70 major biopharmaceutical product launches. This experience allows the team to connect early scientific strategy with the communications, education, training, and creative programs developed around a product.

A Virtual Science Agency

Following the changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Shaw Science Partners Inc. transitioned to a virtualized company structure. This model allows scientific, strategic, writing, and creative professionals to collaborate remotely while continuing to support pharmaceutical clients and communication initiatives.

Although the way the team works has evolved, the company’s focus remains the same: understand the science, develop the story, and create the right tools to communicate it.

Experience Across Therapeutic Areas

Shaw Science Partners Inc. has developed work across cardiology, endocrinology and diabetes, gastroenterology, hematology and coagulation, immunology and rheumatology, infectious disease and virology, neurology and psychiatry, oncology, pulmonary medicine, and renal medicine.

Our portfolio includes scientific subjects such as Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, Type 2 diabetes, myocardial ischemia, platelet production, the complement cascade, and hepatitis C. This range of experience demonstrates the team’s ability to interpret and communicate varied scientific topics.

Decades of Scientific Communications Experience

Since 1981, Shaw Science Partners Inc. has evolved from a medical media company into a multidisciplinary science agency serving pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical organizations. Its work has included collaborations with pharmaceutical companies, academic experts, government health organizations, professional associations, and media organizations.

The company has also received hundreds of national and international awards for healthcare communications, including recognition for medical media, animation, video, websites, and creative development. These accomplishments reflect the combination of scientific insight, strategic ideas, writing, and visual execution behind the work.

Partner With a Science Agency That Understands the Story Behind the Product

Shaw Science Partners Inc. helps clients move from complex scientific information to a clear product story and a coordinated communications program. By combining scientific strategy, intellectual assets, writing, training, animation, video, and interactive technology, the team develops communications built around what makes each product scientifically meaningful. Contact Shaw Science Partners Inc. to discuss an emerging compound, pharmaceutical product launch, scientific platform, training program, animation, video, or interactive communications initiative.

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"Shaw Science provided a unified, expert-driven vision of the complex science behind our product, then crafted a validated scientific platform and key supporting messages with a clear and compelling story for our target audiences."

VICE PRESIDENT, NEW PRODUCT PLANNING

"It was a pleasure working with Shaw Science. Their dedication, persistence, and pursuit of excellence separate them from the rest."

PRODUCT STRATEGIST MARKETING

"We just viewed the program that you delivered. Simply put, if I may, it was AMAZING and visually stunning!"

DIRECTOR, MEDICAL AFFAIRS