Precision Brain Health Research Act of 2025

The Precision Brain Health Research Act of 2025 is a Senate bill that would modify the Veterans Affairs (VA) Precision Medicine for Veterans Initiative. Its central aim is to expand the initiative’s focus to brain health and related conditions—explicitly including repetitive low-level blast exposure and dementia—while enhancing collaboration with the Department of Defense (DoD). The bill would require the VA to create a data-sharing partnership with DoD, housed on an open platform, and to pursue a defined set of research activities related to brain health in veterans. It also authorizes ongoing funding, directs the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) to assist with biomarker validation, and imposes regular reporting and assessment requirements to Congress. In short, the bill seeks to accelerate brain-health research and translation into care for veterans by broadening the research scope, enabling cross-government data sharing, funding specific studies (including growth hormone-related research), and strengthening oversight with biomarker validation and periodic reporting.