In the beginning, vitamin D research at the University of Wisconsin was all about building better bones, especially for children.
But “vitamin D therapy isn’t just for bones anymore,” pioneering UW-Madison scientist Hector DeLuca told a crowd of 250 at the Overture Center Tuesday night in a rare public lecture.
Now, he said, the vitamin D frontiers include developing treatments for psoriasis, dialysis patients, diabetes, osteoporosis, prevention of hip fractures, and even cancer.