Executive Committee
President
Dr. Carla Holandino
Vice President 1
Dr. Igor Jerman
Vice President 2
Dr. Steven J Cartwright
Secretary
Dr. Adalberto von Ancken
Treasurer
Dr. Alexander Tournier
Editor
Prof. Dr. Leoni Bonamin
Main Board
Dr. Maria Olga Kokornaczyk
Dr. Leoni Bonamin
Dr. Carla Holandino
Dr. Denise Aleixo
Dr. Dorly Buchi
Dr. Steven Cartwright
Dr. Cideli P Coelho
Dr. Paul Christian Endler
Dr. Igor Jerman
Dr. Marta Marzotto
Dr. Tatiana Novosadyuk
Dr. Carolina Oliveira
Dr. Nirmal Sukul
Dr. Alexander Tournier
Dr. Adalberto von Ancken
History of GIRI
GIRI (Groupe International de Reherche sur l’Infenitésimal), the International Research Group on Very Low Dose and High Dilution Effects, was founded by Prof. Madeleine Bastide (1939-2007) and René-Philippe Halm in 1985.
The idea to create an international, independent, and legislatively unrestricted meeting on homeopathy came to GIRI founders after they had participated in a congress on unconventional and alternative medicine organized in Monaco by HSH Princess Antoinette de Monaco. Since GIRI’s goals were too specific for the broad context of the Monaco congress, it was decided to create GIRI independently, as new organization, however still in collaboration with the congress.
Prof. Madeleine Bastide
Already in the first year of GIRI’s activity 12 researchers working in different fields of science participated in the GIRI meeting and it become clear that such an interdisciplinary and international meeting on homeopathy is requested.
Shortly later, in 1990, GIRI’s members decided to become independent also from the structures of Monaco and GIRI was listed in the French Journal Officiel becoming so a totally independent organization. In 2016 GIRI was re-founded as an independent scientific association in accordance to the Swiss low.
From its beginnings till now GIRI grew becoming a great international community of researchers working on homeopathy and high dilutions. Recently GIRI unites more then 200 members coming from 20 different countries.
Approximately every 10 years GIRI’s editors launch a book of the series Signal and Images, containing the most interesting lectures presented in the meetings. The book is available on line at: http://www.springer.com/us/book/. Since 2006, GIRI assumed to be the scientific sponsor of the open-access International Journal of High Dilutions Research (IJHDR): http://www.feg.unesp.br/~ojs/index.php/ijhdr.
GIRI’s goals are:
- Organization of yearly workshops providing to the participants the possibility to present their studies in the field of basic or clinical homeopathy research. This aim includes collecting and reviewing of abstracts, assignment of the approved abstracts for oral or poster presentations, notification of authors, planning of a conference schedule, and organization of a venue.
- Hosting of the International Journal of High Dilution Research (IJHDR).
- Publishing of the GIRI-meeting proceedings in IJHDR.
- Emission of a regular newsletter.
- Supporting and facilitating of the establishment of national and international scientific collaboration projects in the field of basic and clinical research in homeopathy.
- Promoting high quality basic and clinical research in homeopathy.
- Collaboration with other organs pursuing similar aims.