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Blake is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at Fort Lewis College. He joined the college in 2009. Dr. Blake’s research focuses on the cellular events in pulmonary macrophages and epithelial cells that initiate immunological changes using human and mouse models. He studies numerous cell biology topics including how inhaled environmental toxins and particulates alter the antioxidant/oxidative balance in the lung to the effectiveness of sattabacin against the Varicella Zoster Virus infection in human fibroblast cells.

He advises Fort Lewis student researchers under the National Institute of General Medical Sciences-Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) U-STAR program. Dr. Blake has taught an environmental health and disease course in Costa Rica through the University Studies Abroad Consortium. Prior to joining Fort Lewis, Dr. Blake was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he researched the role of Nrf2 in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Dr. Blake is the recipient of the FLC Skyhawk Award (2012 and 2016) and the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute Immunotoxicology Young Investigator Travel Award (2012).