Editorial – Proceedings of the XXXVII GIRI meeting

Resumo (EN)

The XXXVII GIRI Meeting was held in November 9-12th, 2024 in Ljubljana, at the Town Hall, Slovenia, with the co-participation and shared organization of Bion Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and World Water Lab consortium, an initiative to gather scientists interested to understand and advance the science of emergent properties of water.

The program was organized in four Keynote talks, two round tables and 15 individual presentations selected from a careful peer-review process. One general seminar about the main topics studied in the context of the WWL activities closed the meeting.

All talks focused the physicochemical aspects of UHDs, mainly the probable field effect, provoking a discussion about how good-quality basic research can improve the plausibility of clinical / agronomic use of UHD preparations, which seems to be an essential grounding for the evidence-based medicine clinical studies (including the veterinary ones) by improving its trial protocols, and for a high-tech sustainable resource of food production. Since both aspects are complementary, the need of high-level clinical studies on homeopathy and high dilutions is an urgent issue as well, as was also discussed.

At the end of the conference, the Madeleine Bastide Prize was given to the best individual presentations, being the first place attributed to Prof. Fateme Mirzajani (Iran), the second place to Dr. Leonardo Faedo (Brazil - UK), and three mentions were given to Sandra Tribolo (France), Lorena Guimarães (Brazil), and Adriana Miranda (Brazil).