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Google hires mental health expert to lead new life sciences unit

Google has hired a senior health researcher to lead a push into the mental health sector, as its ambitions beyond internet search expand to fit the new blueprint laid out with its reinvention as holding company Alphabet.

Thomas Insel has stepped down as director of the National Institute of Mental Health to take on “a wide spectrum of issues in mental health” at Google Life Sciences, the government research organisation said on Tuesday.

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