Lars Oddsson is an experienced biomedical scientist, an inventor, a visionary leader and an entrepreneur. He is President and Co-founder of RxFunction Inc., a medical device start-up company based on Dr. Oddsson’s invention that commercializes Walkasins™, an external lower leg prosthesis that replaces lost sensory information from the feet due to neuropathy to help patients improve balance function and mobility. Dr. Oddsson currently serves on the Board of Directors of LifeScience Alley, the Alley Institute and the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce. He has a broad background in neurophysiology, engineering, rehabilitation sciences and technology development, has served as principal investigator on federal as well as private foundations grants and he has authored numerous research articles in the areas of biomedical engineering, neuromotor control and rehabilitation science. He is a Senior Fellow of the IEEE and he holds several patents. Dr. Oddsson has previously held academic appointments at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, Boston University, MIT and Harvard Medical School.