Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder/Adjunct Professor
RxFunction Inc./University of Minnesota
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
Lars Oddsson, PhD, is an experienced biomedical scientist, an inventor and entrepreneur. He is CTO and Co-Founder of RxFunction, a start-up that has commercialized Walkasins, a wearable sensory prosthesis for balance. Dr. Oddsson teaches in the M.S. in Medical Device Innovation program at the Technological Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota and is Adjunct Professor in Rehabilitation Sciences at the Medical School. He is a visiting professor at the Recanati School of Health Professions at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He is a co-investigator and consultant to NASA’s Johnson Space Center on projects related to the development of sensorimotor countermeasures to long-term spaceflight. Previously, Dr. Oddsson led the Injury Analysis and Prevention Lab at Boston University’s Neuromuscular Research Center, where he was a faculty research professor. In Boston, he held temporary adjunct appointments at Harvard Medical School and at MIT. Oddsson was the founding director of research at the Courage Kenny Research Center at Allina Health.
Neuroplasticity Speed Rounds: Six Perspectives from Members of the Neuroplasticity Networking Group
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM