The Gulf landscape.
The busiest research sites in the Gulf are the large government hospital systems and their research arms; King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. They run the trials, enroll the patients, and generate the regional evidence.
The twenty institutions below currently host the most studies with an active or recruiting site in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait. They form the landscape our regional operations are built for: national health systems with growing pipelines that need a shared, governed record of the work.
Each marker is a site currently hosting at least one active or recruiting study in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar or Kuwait; deduplicated by ClinicalTrials.gov NCT ID so the same trial is not counted twice.
Ranked by the number of studies with an active or recruiting site at each institution in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait, per ClinicalTrials.gov, retrieved September 2026. Spelling variants of the same institution are merged and branches combined; a study counts once per institution. Counts change as studies register, so only the ranking is shown.
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