Speaker Profile
M.D., Ph.D., Senior Medical Director, Convergent Tx
Biography
Dr. Jones Nauseef is a board-certified medical oncologist and physician scientist with expertise in prostate cancer genomics, management, and clinical trials. At Convergent Therapeutics, he has driven clinical development and the initiation of the phase II CONVERGE-01 trial. Following his PhD in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, he completed his Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology training at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and remained to serve as an Assistant Professor and member of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine and the Meyer Cancer Centers Experimental Therapeutics program. He contributed to the design and execution of anti-PSMA radiopharmaceutical trials (e.g., 225Ac-J591). He has served as a key opinion leader on genitourinary therapeutics and participated in national collaborative consortia. Beyond PSMA, his research focus included the genomics of African-ancestry prostate cancers and on advanced, non-adenocarcinoma prostate tumors. He maintains a courtesy affiliation with WCM and a research collaboration with the New York Genome Center.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Razelle Kurzrock, Medical College of Wisconsin
- PMWC 2025 Award Ceremony:
Luminary Honoree: Hedvig Hricak, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Pioneer Honoree: Michael E. Phelps, UCLA - Keynote: Precision Imaging for Precision Medicine
- Hedvig Hricak, Memorial Sloan Kettering
- Keynote: PET Imaging and Theranostics: Revolutionizing Cancer Detection and Treatment
- Michael E. Phelps, UCLA
- Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Therapy
Chair: Wiliam Oh, Mount Sinai
- Naga Vara Kishore Pillarsetty, Memorial Sloan Kettering
- Jones Nauseef, Convergent Therapeutics
- Thomas Hope, UCSF
- Advancements in Digital Imaging: Enhancing Accuracy in Cancer Diagnostics
Chair: Razelle Kurzrock, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Hedvig Hricak, Memorial Sloan Kettering
- Liron Pantanowitz, University of Pittsburgh
- Eliot Siegel, VA Maryland Healthcare System
- Sharmila Majumdar, UCSF
- Wafik El-Deiry, Brown University - Digitalizing Oncology Care: Challenges and Opportunities
Chair: Christian Wolfrum Siemens Healthineers
- Ashley Smith, Varian
- Marshall Pitz, Manitoba Cancer Care
- PMWC Showcase: Informing Patient Treatment Decisions using Advanced Molecular Diagnostics
- Matthew Goldberg, Castle Bio
- Navigating Regulatory Hurdles and Reimbursement Pathways for Oncology Innovations
Chair: Sheila Walcoff, Goldbug Strategies
- Gabriel A. Bien-Willner, Palmetto GBA
