Eleanor directs editorial content produced by the Commercial Pharma Insights team (Scrip, Generics Bulletin and In Vivo) in the US and Europe, liaising closely with counterparts in policy and regulatory coverage and in Asia. She oversees and contributes to daily analytical content based on biopharma industry developments and trends, interviewing key experts and industry leaders. Eleanor joined Citeline predecessor Informa in 2000 as companies reporter on Scrip, and has held a number of editorial roles on Citeline's pharma and medtech publications. She has interviewed countless industry leaders and specialists, explored business developments and strategy, pipeline trends, policy and regulatory stories, delved into M&A, licensing, partnerships, financing, financial reports, clinical trial updates, market trends and more. She regularly appears on conference panels and in the media to discuss matters relating to the biopharma industry. She has an MA in modern languages from the University of Edinburgh and previously worked as a translator of European business news for the Financial Times.
Latest from Eleanor Malone
The payout could increase to $2.25bn if Moderna loses an ongoing appeal that would shift $1.3bn in liability to US taxpayers, making it the largest patent settlement in pharma history.
Twenty biopharma leaders share predictions for 2026 – from shifting dealmaking dynamics and Asia's rise as an innovation epicenter to new frontiers in oncology, obesity and cell therapy, and AI's operational reckoning.
About 50 pharmaceutical industry leaders surveyed by Scrip predict 2026 will mark AI's shift from pilot programs to committed operational deployment. However, competitive advantage will depend on organizational transformation and digital infrastructure maturity, not algorithmic sophistication alone.
Enthusiastic predictions from industry leaders for ongoing progress in obesity, oncology, immunology, neuroscience and more were supported by optimism for the potential of AI and other technological advances to enable breakthroughs in processes as well as pipelines.
Industry leaders predict pricing uncertainty will force companies to abandon blanket global launches. However, AI platforms will reshape commercial execution and new access models will break down barriers limiting patient reach.
Scrip Asks... What Does 2026 Hold For Biopharma? Part 2: Competitive Dynamics – A Landscape Reshaped
Industry leaders predict that competitive dynamics in 2026 will be fundamentally reshaped by China's speed and cost advantages, forcing western biopharma to rethink what it takes to win. Meanwhile, the sustainability of traditional biotech's role as innovation middleman is called into question.