Google Lures NIH Mental Health Chief Tom Insel To Life Sciences Team

Dr. Tom Insel has stepped down as director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to join the life sciences team at Google. The coup formalizes the expansion of Google's focus into the detection, management and prevention of mental health disorders and gives it access to expertise Insel accrued while spearheading NIH programs such as the BRAIN Initiative. Insel has spent most of his working life at NIMH, rising through the ranks from 1980 to 1994 before leaving to lead Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center. NIMH lured Insel back in 2002 to serve as its director, a position . . .