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2026 Pharma & Biotech R&D Roadmaps

Building better solutions from discovery to delivery

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2026 roadmap highlights

Find relevant insights to advance your projects from early scientific research to critical regulatory data and everything in between.

Elsevier expands its extensive library of trusted information, strengthening data coverage and improving design and usability so you can move faster.

In 2026, Elsevier integrates AI capabilities more seamlessly across our solutions to support more efficient research workflows.

Explore the roadmaps below.

Reaxys

Advancing discovery and synthesis

Faster, more intuitive chemistry discovery is the focus of Reaxys development priorities this year. Priorities include:

  • Enhancing document search and summarization with AI-powered capabilities

  • Accelerating high-quality chemical data availability at scale through AI-driven extraction

  • Expanding route generation capabilities and improving synthesis planning models

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Embase

Get to biomedical insights faster

Expanded ClinicalTrials.gov coverage will help you identify relevant trials more efficiently for systematic reviews and regulatory submissions.Embase development priorities in 2026 include:

  • Optimize its AI agentic system 

  • Expand the Emtree taxonomy 

  • Enhance the Embase.com user experience

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Datasets

Turn data into discoveries

Build a more complete picture and uncover hidden connections with:

  • Expanded dataset coverage including additional clinical trials content in our biomedical dataset from Embase 

  • Enhanced API onboarding and delivery experiences that make it easier to integrate Elsevier data into your internal pipelines

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ScienceDirect

Critical insights to accelerate R&D and support confident discovery, innovation and development

Upgrades to ScienceDirect in 2026 include:

  • Enhanced ADA accessibility 

  • Re-platformed infrastructure to improve scalability and agility 

  • Free book previews 

  • A redesigned article interface to make it easier than ever to discover relevant research quickly

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PharmaPendium

Reduce your research time

Accelerate drug development and regulatory success with new AI capabilities, enhanced tools and expanded content on the way. Planned updates include:

  • Improved PharmaPendium AI user experience

  • More localized regulatory content

  • Expanded taxonomies

  • An enhanced Safety Margin Tool

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Scopus

Better integrated AI functionality

Scopus expands AI-assisted discovery capabilities throughout 2026, accelerating horizon scanning, literature reviews and white space analysis by enabling analytics at scale. Scopus moves toward a unified Scopus experience with AI embedded directly into core workflows. Updates include:

  • Improved relevance through smarter recommendations

  • New features that support export and advanced analytics

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SciBite

Turn data into connected, searchable knowledge

The SciBite team continues to advance our technology, expertise and curated ontologies to support your work. Key initiatives include:

  • Ontology management: AI innovations to improve efficiency and content management

  • Enrichment: Integrating ontologies with language models for deeper insights

  • Search: New options for seamless data integration

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LeapSpace™ is live: the research‑grade AI‑assisted workspace built on trusted science

LeapSpace, Elsevier’s research-grade AI workspace, launched in January. It combines comprehensive trusted, peer-reviewed content with Responsible AI in a single secure environment to help researchers work faster, think deeper and achieve more.     Existing ScienceDirect AI customers will continue to access LeapSpace under their current subscription. The “Ask” ScienceDirect AI page remains available until March 31, 2026; after that, LeapSpace becomes the default AI experience. Compare Experiments and Reading Assistant are included in LeapSpace.

Coming soon: the LeapSpace 2026 product roadmap