
Judit Giró Benet is a biomedical engineer with a Master’s degree in embedded cyber-physical systems who founded The Blue Box Biomedical Solutions Inc. in 2020.
In 2014, Judit started her bachelor’s in biomedical engineering at the University of Barcelona, where she met a dog that smelled patients’ breath and barked if they had lung cancer. She then thought that “if biology has a way to do it, we engineers could build a device on this principle too”. And so her Bachelor thesis started.
Judit Giró Benet’s biomedical device The Blue Box is making an empowering and accessible contribution to the future of medicine. This under-development AI provides an inexpensive, noninvasive, non-irradiating, and pain-free breast cancer test designed to be completed quickly and in the comfort of your home.
Winner of the 2020 Global James Dyson Award, Benet’s electronic nose mimics a dog’s olfactory system and reacts to specific metabolites within a urine sample. Unlike the standard in-home pregnancy test, The Blue Box is not a single-use product and can be reused indefinitely by multiple people.
Organization
The Blue Box Biomedical Solutions Inc.
Position
Co-founder & CEO