JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM
Professor Tung Hoang, left, checks on E. Coli samples in his laboratory with Ph.D. candidate Zhenxin Sun, right, on Wednesday, June 23, at the University of Hawaii’s Life Sciences building. Hoang and his team are leading UH’s effort to find a vaccine for a deadly disease known as melioidosis, which is found in tropical areas around the world, including in Hoang's birth country of Vietnam.