Rate My Professor Rie Ishizawa

Rie Ishizawa serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Sports and Life Sciences at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya since April 2023. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition from Seinan Jo Gakuin University in 2009, a Master’s degree in Health and Physical Education from Nara University of Education in 2011, and a Ph.D. in Life Sciences from Kanazawa University in 2015. As a registered dietitian, her academic journey reflects a strong foundation in nutrition and exercise physiology. Prior to her current role, Ishizawa was an Assistant Instructor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center from 2021 to 2023 and a Postdoctoral Fellow there from 2018 to 2021. She also served as a Research Assistant at Waseda University from 2016 to 2018 and a JSPS Doctoral Researcher at Kanazawa University from 2015 to 2016.

Ishizawa’s research specializes in exercise nutrition, focusing on the function of ion channels in skeletal muscle sensory nerves related to blood pressure responses during exercise and the relationship between such responses and fat diets. Her publication record includes “Abnormal cardiovascular control during exercise: Role of insulin resistance in the brain and periphery” (Autonomic Neuroscience, 2025), “Intracerebroventricular insulin injection acutely normalizes the augmented exercise pressor reflex in male rats with type 2 diabetes mellitus” (The Journal of Physiology, 2024), “TRPV1 sensitization of skeletal muscle afferents in type 2 diabetic rats with hyperglycemia” (Hypertension, 2021), “Skeletal muscle reflex-induced sympathetic dysregulation and sensitization of muscle afferents in type 1 diabetic rats” (Hypertension, 2020), and “Curcumin treatment enhances the effect of exercise on mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle by increasing cAMP levels” (Metabolism, 2015). She has obtained grants including a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) for elucidating mechanisms of elevated blood pressure during exercise in diabetes (2024–2026) and a Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up for control of blood pressure by gut-derived toxins in mechanosensitive muscle afferents (2023–2024). Ishizawa has presented her work at conferences such as the 101st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Physiological Society and the American Physiological Summit.