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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

NIH grant funds research with youth experiencing homelessness

Mindfulness intervention to be assessed in Houston, Atlanta, and New Orleans.

Two NIH grants fund dementia caregiver research

Mustafa Yildiz, PhD, and Carolyn Pickering, PhD, RN, receive grants totaling $468,000.

Studying pain from the bench to the bedside

More than 20 experts gathered at UTHealth Houston for second annual pain research retreat.

Nursing plays key role in Texas CFAR

NIH provides $9.3 million to Texas Center for AIDS Research.

Kobeissi named PARTNERS Research Scholar

Associate Professor Mitzy Kobeissi thanks PARTNERS for career-building support.

Studying how and why auricular point acupressure works

Hongyu Wang, MD, PhD, receives pilot grant from the UTHealth Houston Cizik Nursing Research Institute.

Immune response after ruptured brain aneurysms

Alex Choi, MD, and Seong Kyu “Bosco” Yang, MD, receive grant from UTHealth Houston Cizik Nursing Research Institute.

Nurse scientists seek clinical trial participants

Two Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston researchers are now recruiting patients for studies funded by large federal grants they received last year.

What’s it like to age with HIV?

Assistant Professor Higinio Fernández-Sánchez is using three grants to research quality of life for people aging with HIV.

Motivations for physical activity among South Asian women

Associate Professor Nitha Mathew Joseph receives Zeta Pi grant.