Personal profile
Biography
Jet Vonk is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She received her PhD in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences from the City University of New York Graduate Center, with a focus on neurolinguistics and cognitive science. She also maintains an affiliation with the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Department of Epidemiology, at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where she is currently obtaining a second PhD in Epidemiology.
Her research focuses on the timing and mechanisms of cognitive decline in relation to aging and dementia using linguistic, neuroimaging, and epidemiological methods. Her overall goal is to investigate the evolution of language use and cognitive decline throughout the course of dementia to help accurate and timely diagnosis, with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease and Primary Progressive Aphasia. Previous work has focused on detecting subtle semantic memory impairment in preclinical dementia, developing novel cognitive markers related to biomarkers and future clinical outcomes, and investigating effects of biological and sociodemographic variables on cognitive and language decline.
Her work is funded by an NWO Talent Programme Veni Grant and NIH K99/R00 Award. A complete list of published peer-reviewed work is available here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/jet.vonk.1/bibliography/public/
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Identifying pathways to the prevention of dementia: the Netherlands consortium of dementia cohorts
Oomens, J. E., Moonen, J. E. F., Vos, S. J. B., Beran, M., Mateus, P., De Deyn, P. P., van der Flier, W. M., Geerlings, M. I., Huisman, M. A., Ikram, M. A., Schram, M. T., Slagboom, P. E., Verschuren, W. M. M., Beekman, M., Bermejo, I., Birhanu, M., Bron, E. E., Dekker, A., Frentz, I. & Garst, S. J. F. & 16 others, , 12 Feb 2025, In: BMC Neurology. 25, 1, 59.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction and cognition: A two-step IPD meta-analysis
Beran, M., Jansen, W. J., Oomens, J. E., Moonen, J. E. F., Slagboom, P. E., Huisman, M., Kok, A. A. L., Nooyens, A. C. J., Verschuren, W. M. M., Stehouwer, C. D. A., Schalkwijk, C., Köhler, S., Beekman, M., Slagboom, P. E., Wolters, F. J., Ikram, M. A., Vallerga, C. L., van Meurs, J. B. J., Ghanbari, M. & Vonk, J. M. J. & 4 others, , Dec 2024, In: Alzheimer's and Dementia. 20, 12, p. 8402-8411 10 p., doi.org/10.1002/alz.14272.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Microvascular Dysfunction and Whole-Brain White Matter Connectivity: The Maastricht Study
Beran, M., van Gennip, A. C. E., Stehouwer, C. D. A., Jansen, J. F. A., Gupta, M. D., Houben, A. J. H. M., Berendschot, T. T. J. M., Webers, C. A. B., Wesselius, A., Schalkwijk, C. G., Backes, W. H., de Jong, J. J. A., van der Kallen, C. J. H., van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Köhler, S., Vonk, J. M. J., Geerlings, M. I., Schram, M. T. & van Sloten, T. T., 6 Feb 2024, In: Journal of the American Heart Association. 13, 3, e9112.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Word Production Abilities in Dysfunction of the Basal Ganglia: Stroke, Small Vessel Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and Huntington’s Disease
Camerino, I., Ferreira, J., Vonk, J. M., Kessels, R. P. C., de Leeuw, F. E., Roelofs, A., Copland, D. & Piai, V., Mar 2024, In: Neuropsychology Review. 34, 1, p. 1-26 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Prizes
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NIH NIA K99/R00 Award (1K99AG066934-01)
Vonk, J. (Recipient), 27 Apr 2020
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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NWO ZonMw Veni Grant (project 09150161810017)
Vonk, J. (Recipient), 15 Jul 2019
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively