First person – Blake Smith

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Blake Smith is first author on ‘Mouse models for dominant dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa carrying common human point mutations recapitulate the human disease’, published in DMM. Blake is a PhD student in the lab of Ken Pang at Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Australia, currently investigating the rare genetic skin disease epidermolysis bullosa utilising a novel mouse model.