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MDengue App The Dengue Application & Website – mDengue was developed by SEACO, in collaboration with the Segamat District Public Health Office. mDengue will help control the dengue vector (Aedes mosquitoes) at the community level. The mobile application aims to become a tool for the community to take pictures, before and after taking actions to eliminate potential and confirmed mosquito breeding sites. This will enable the District Health Office to monitor activities, as well as inform the community about the necessary actions needed to control dengue transmission in an effective way. The website will provide District Health Officers a dynamic map where they can see the locations of captured images of potential and confirmed dengue breeding sites. It will also help identify locations of reported dengue patients and Ovitraps (mosquito trap) on the real time map display. RESEARCHERS Kridaraan Komahan Norliza Mat Ameerul Afif Ahmad Prof Daniel Reidpath Prof Pascale Allotey Dr Mohtar Hj Ahmad (Segamat District Public Health Office) Dr Zaid Kassim (Segamat District Public Health Office) INDUSTRY PARTNERS Segamat District Public Health Office 2016 INTERNATIONAL INVENTION, INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITION (ITEX) Organised by the Malaysian Invention and Design Society (MINDS), the exhibition aimed to cultivate the ability to think critically – a quality separating innovators from followers. All four teams from Monash Malaysia who participated were each awarded gold medals at the 2016 International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition (ITEX). Associate Professor Md Ezharul Hoque Chowdhury, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine & Health Sciences Title of Invention: World's First pH-Sensitive Inorganic Nano-Crystals to Serve as Super-Efficient Drug-Transporter Dr Narayanan Ramakrishnan and Lee Neam Heng (Monash PhD student), School of Engineering Title of Invention: MONASH MAS – UV LED Mask Aligner System Professor Ishwar Parhar, Dr Satoshi Ogawa and Dr Shogo Moriya, BRIMS Title of Invention: Combination of Ghrelin and Kisspeptin Analogs (GPR54 Agonists) for Growth of Aquatic Animals Dr Pushpamalar A/P Janarthanan and Dr Saravanan Muniyandy, School of Science and School of Pharmacy Title of Invention: Biodegradable Polymers for Drug Delivery and Waste Water Treatment 18