The Trudeau Institute is a modern biomedical research facility built on Lower Saranac Lake in 1964. It was established with the proceeds from the sale of the shuttered Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, east of town, in order to carry on the legacy of curative research of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau. Trudeau helped bring thousands of people to the Adirondacks for the treatment of tuberculosis, which became a major local industry, starting in the 1880s, and lasting into the 1940s. Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, incidentally, was the great grandfather of Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who grew up in Saranac Lake.