Date and time: Thursday 28 May 2026, 08:30-09:15 CEST
Title: New Technology for Home-Based Hormone Diagnostics
Speaker: Professor Carlota Canalias Gomez
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus OR Zoom
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
A project designed to make hormone levels measurable in everyday life and empower women to take control of their hormonal health. Come and have breakfast at the Digital Futures Lounge, and listen to KTH researcher Carlota Canalias Gomez describe the project that brings new understanding to this long-neglected field.
28 May is the International Day for Menstrual Health. InspireLab and Digital Futures mark the day by presenting research that can truly improve women’s health. Physicist and photonics researcher Carlota Canalias Gomez, who is one of the scientists behind the project ‘Home-based Hormone Diagnostics’, will present the work to a broader audience at one of our popular breakfast seminar collaborations.
Improving menstrual and hormonal health is a crucial step towards closing the global gender health gap. Beyond the human suffering caused by poorly understood hormonal conditions, the economic consequences are vast. According to a 2024 McKinsey report, closing the women’s health gap could add at least USD 1 trillion to global GDP every year until 2040.
This new InspireLab-funded project aims to help close this gap by making hormone levels measurable in daily life, through a simple, affordable home urine test. Using fibre optics, spectroscopy and AI, the system measures six key hormones: LH, FSH, oestrogen, progesterone, cortisol and serotonin, with results analysed via a mobile phone. The goal is to help individuals better understand their own bodies, and to generate new knowledge about hormonal health. Although brand new, the project has already attracted significant external interest.
Breakfast is served from 08.00. We hope you will join us to hear about research that could genuinely change lives!
The conference is co-sponsored by Digital Futures.
