With a bustling population composed of a mixture of expats and locals, and the topic of clinical research not being so popular among the crowd, the phenomenon of clinical research has finally come into the picture in UAE. Adhiti Sharad Kumar, the Coordinator for the Gulf Chapter of the Association of Clinical Research Proffesionals – ACRP, looks into the clinical research sector in UAE, currently going well, with many pharmaceutical companies investing in studies with the patient pool consisting of the population in the Middle East.