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Cizik Nursing Research Institute

Nurse scientists at Cizik School of Nursing are supported by UTHealth Houston’s multidisciplinary Cizik Nursing Research Institute (CNRI), which provides infrastructure, evidence-based mentoring programs, and laboratory facilities. Get the details about the Smart Apartment for aging-in-place research and the Biobehavioral Health Laboratory.

Research Faculty

Our nurse scientists are devoted to improving the lives of patients and families with a wide variety of robust programs of research. Get to know our faculty members, and find one whose interests align with yours.

Cizik School of Nursing research team

Cizik nursing researchers

Funded Projects

More than 20 Department of Research faculty members are conducting research funded by federal and state grants as well as private foundations and intramural sources. Explore our funded research projects.

Center for Nursing Research

The Center for Nursing Research provides pre- and post-award services, editorial support, statistical consultation, and a wide range of other services to support faculty.

Center for Nursing Research team

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Roybal Center for Elder Mistreatment Intervention Research

This nursing-led, multidisciplinary center supports research studies of behavioral and social interventions that aim to reduce exposure to elder mistreatment and its mental and physical impacts on community-dwelling older adults and their caregivers.


Cizik School of Nursing Research News

Nutrition for pregnant women facing homelessness

Assistant Professor Annalynn Galvin, PhD, RN, receives Dean’s Research Award to better understand the nutritional needs of pregnant women experiencing homelessness.

Mapping Medication Management

Suhyun Park, PhD, studies nurses’ clinical workflows and how they interact with electronic health records (EHRs).

Kaler mines breast cancer data

Abbey Kaler, MS, FNP-C, to analyze data about patients living with metastatic breast cancer.

Preventing depression among stroke survivors

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston Associate Professor Jennifer E.S. Beauchamp leads five-year, $6.48 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Preventing HIV and substance use among survivors of sexual violence

Dean Diane Santa Maria receives R34 planning grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Enhancing HIV knowledge for new nurses

Course to include online modules and hands-on clinicals.

Cancer care from the bench to the bedside

Alumna Terri S. Armstrong, PhD, ANP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, delivers the 2025 Jane and Robert Cizik Lecture.

Continued growth in NIH funding

NIH funding increased to $6,438,187 in 2024.

Santa Maria receives Presidential Award

Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston Dean Diane Santa Maria receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.