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Camilla Friis Bryde Nielsen is a Research Assistant at the Center for Clinical Research and Prevention in the Section for Epidemiology. She has a master’s degree in Human Nutrition from the University of Copenhagen. Camilla has previous experience with intervention studies as her master’s thesis was based on the randomized controlled study D-pro, which investigated the combined effects of vitamin D and milk protein on bone health and body composition in 6-8-year-old children.

Currently, Camilla works on the InterVitaminK trial, which is a sub-study to the 20-year follow-up of the Inter99 cohort. The overall purpose of the study is to investigate the role of vitamin K in the development of age-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes, using a population based, genetic and clinical epidemiological approach.