Thomas R. Insel, who has served as president of the United States National Institute of Mental Health for 13 years, is about to join Alphabet - formerly known as Google - the Google Life Science company. Yesterday morning, Insel made the following statement:
Google Life Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the "GLS") team is developing a reform of the health care industry new technology, such as embedded glucose detector of contact lenses. GLS's mission is to create technology that can help early detection, prevention, and more effective management of serious health problems. I am about to join the team to explore how this mission will be applied to the field of mental illness. Google's life science team has made great exploration in the field of mental health, which itself is a significant statement - both to recognize the burden of diseases such as mental illness, emotional disorders and autism, but also the technology to change millions of patients, to make a significant impact on the field. Google's philosophy is to exert a influence on difficult issues of ten times, and I am looking forward to ten times in the field of mental health challenges.
Alphabet may reconsider its prior to the entry into the health care industry difficult argument. In July, Sergei Brin (Brin Sergey), said Vinod Khosla (Khosla Vinod), said: "in general, the medical industry is too strict regulation. Into this industry is very painful. I don't really want to spend time on this. Even if we do have a few health projects, we should just do it."
"Thomas’ joining will greatly help Google's life science team to face the enormous challenges in understanding, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness problems." a Google spokesman wrote, "For his joining, we feel excited,. Also we will share more information with him in our team."
Due to work with Google Insel is doing the mission quite fit. He has been working to promote the field of psychiatry to think about the classification of patients, he believes that patients with similar symptoms, the actual underlying biological problems may be different, and the mental state of the biology of similar patients may appear different symptoms. Does this sound like Alphabet?
Bruce Cuthbert will temporarily be president of the United States National Institute of Mental Health, until a new president takes office.