From Hippocrates to Del Giudice: workshop on a deep understanding of the similia principle
This year, we celebrate 40 years since the creation of GIRI, which was born during “Les Entretiens Internationaux de Monaco” from an initiative of Professor Madeleine Bastide. GIRI was officially founded in 1986 when GIRI was registered in France as an “Association 1900”, which is a non-profit scientific society. Since then, annual meetings have been held on a traveling basis, and from 2022 onwards, the meetings have taken on a hybrid format, increasing the participation of aspiring members and students since travel costs would no longer be a barrier to their involvement.
In 2025, HRI and HDScience will host the XXXVIII GIRI meeting in Greece. It has symbolic value: it celebrates 40 years of the GIRI in Hippocrates’ land as a satellite event of the HRI meeting 2025, a large-scale Congress focused on disseminating cutting-edge scientific results in high dilutions and homeopathy. In short, it is a point of convergence between past and future, an opportunity to deepen discussions on the results of basic research, both physical-chemical and biological, to establish bridges with the results of clinical research, and to do justice to Hahnemann’s legacy by giving contemporaneity to studies related to his original discoveries.
Scientific papers involving recently published, completed, or not-yet-published partial data can be presented and open to peer discussion before completion. Protocols and projects in the initial phase are also welcome for discussion. The GIRI´s original nature is to be a laboratory of ideas so everyone can think and build knowledge together. The result of this movement is to envision solutions or forms of mitigation for serious contemporary problems related to human, animal, and environmental health through the improvement of their bio-resilience.
At this event, the presentations will be distributed at similar times among GIRI members whose abstracts have been approved by the International Journal of High Dilution Research – IJHDR – review committee. Non-member participants are also welcome to attend as an audience and participate in the discussions. We hope that the XXXVIII GIRI meeting and the blue seas of Greece will be inspiring for the years to come!
The GIRI Organization and Scientific Committee
February 2025
Scientific / Organization Committee:
Prof. Carla Holandino – Brazil – President of the GIRI
Dr. Igor Jerman – Bion Institute – Slovenia – Vice-President of the GIRI
Dr. Steven J Cartwright – UK – Vice-President of the GIRI
Prof. Adalberto CB von Ancken – Brazil – Secretary of the GIRI
Dr. Alexander L Tournier – Switzerland – Treasurer of the GIRI
Prof. Leoni V Bonamin – Brazil – Editor of the GIRI
Prof. Vânia Bucco – Brazil – invited Scientific Committee member
Dr. Rodrigo Duarte – Brazil – invited Scientific Committee member
Dra. Nathalia Salles S de Medeiros – Argentina – invited Scientific Committee member
Yasmin Toronto – pharmacy graduate student
Preliminary program:
Makedonia Palace
2, Meg. Alexandrou Ave.
Thessaloniki Gr-546 40, Greece
June 23 and 24, 2025
Morning – in-person presentations and open discussion
American Lunch
Afternoon 1 – videoconference of online participants and open discussion
Coffee break
Afternoon 2 – Videoconference of online participants and open discussion
The time for each presentation will be determined after May 16, 2025, based on the number of participants presenting works.
IMPORTANT:
(1) LIMITED PLACES:
The room is limited to 30 in-person participants. Seats will be reserved in chronological order of confirmed registration. After completion, only online participants will be accepted, at a limit of 100 people.
(2) PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GIRI AND HRI:
Since both events are complementary (see above), the GIRI members participating in the GIRI meeting in person can receive a discount for the HRI conference, which will be held on June 20-22, 2025, in the same Hotel. Just use the coupon HRI2025GIRI when registering for the HRI conference (see details at: https://www.hrigreece2025.org/register/).
It takes €65.00 off the early booking rate (up to March 31, 2025). After this period, HRI staff will revise the rates. The HRI staff will also check GIRI members’ IDs to prevent misusing coupons.
Practical information:
TIMELINE:
| February 17, 2025 | Opening of the abstract submission period |
| March 21, 2025 | Ending of the abstract submission period |
| March and April | Peer review process running |
| May 09, 2025 | Approval of abstract disclosure |
| May 16, 2025 | Deadline for presenters’ registration and program confirmation |
| June 13, 2025 | Deadline for non-presenters’ registration |
Abstract submission:
The organization committee will accept abstracts only from GIRI members and invited authors. The instructions will be sent by email only.
All non-member participants are welcome as an audience. Feel free to participate in the open discussions. Registration information for non-GIRI members is explained above.