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Feras Alkasab is unequivocal about the positives that in-house legal work can bring to any ambitious legal professional: ‘Going in-house is an absolute must for lawyers as it is an eye-opening experience into the businesses they support. As an in-house lawyer, you get a really good sense of what your advice does and how it impacts your client, and this is part of the appeal of working at Sidra’. Sidra Medical and Research Center, a state-of-the-art academic medical centre in Doha, has employees representing over 80 nationalities from clinical staff, to scientists, researchers and administrators. Alkasab welcomes the challenge of working in a diverse environment such as this and finds it particularly stimulating to witness life-changing innovation being created around precision medicine and biomedical research. On the regulatory side, ‘my team often gets consulted as a stakeholder when new data privacy, research and medical legislations are being developed, as we are often in the best position to inform the regulators in these areas given our specialist knowledge’, he explains. Alkasab joined Sidra over three years ago after having been in private practice at international law firms in the United States and Qatar. At Sidra, Alkasab’s practice is as diverse as the business of an academic medical centre, with a focus on intellectual property, corporate and commercial, genetic and human subjects research, litigation, and healthcare regulatory work.