The federal research grant is aimed primarily at helping an Oregon-based company called Aronora, but Dr. Stephen Smiley in Saranac Lake will work as co-investigator on the project.

In a press release, Smiley said that his research would help determine whether the company's techniques would work to combat a range of bacterial infections in humans.

This grant comes at a time when Trudeau Institute faces severe budget pressure, and a decline in funding from the National Institutes of Health.