Hi pharmaverse community,

On behalf of the council we are pleased to announce that Nick Masel will be taking over from Sumesh Kalappurakal as the J&J representative on the Pharmaverse Council. Please join us in thanking Sumesh for his leadership and foresight as one of our original pharmaverse co-founders, and in welcoming Nick to the council!

To learn more about our council please check our site page, and you can reach all of us using: [email protected].

Bio:

Nick Masel is Associate Director, Clinical & Statistical Programming (Technology Solutions) at Johnson & Johnson, where he has helped implement infrastructure and drive R adoption since 2019. He has previously served on the R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) and for the last three years has co-led PHUSE’s Data Visualization & Open Source Technology (DVOST) Working Group. Nick is an active contributor to the Pharmaverse ecosystem as a package developer and maintainer, working at the intersection of open-source tooling, data visualization, and regulated clinical and statistical programming to deliver reproducible, scalable solutions for pharmaceutical programming teams.

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  author = {council, pharmaverse},
  title = {Welcome, {Nick} {Masel}},
  date = {2026-02-20},
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