Milestones and Awards

1985	Establishment of a foundation under civil law by Aesulap-Werke AG, Tuttlingen, Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen
1985	Prof. Dr. Rudolf Steiner becomes the first Director of the Institute
1985	Foundation Stone Ceremony
1985	Inauguration of the building by the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Dr.hc Lothar Späth
1988	Visit by the Federal Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl
1988	First publication on the effect of the erbium laser on dental hard tissue
1988	First test of an erbium laser on a human
1989	International Symposium "Lasers in Dermatology" in conjunction with the 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Laser Medicine (DGLM e.V.)
1992	Presentation of the first erbium laser for medical applications at the International Dental Show in Cologne (KEY Laser, KaVo) (International Dental Show in Cologne, KEY Laser, KaVo)
1992	Visit of Nobel Laureate Prof. A.M. Prokhorov, who developed the first laser, General Physics Institute, Moscow
1994	Expansion of ILM's Scope: Institute for Laser Technologies in Medicine and Metrology at the University of Ulm
1995	Visit of Federal Minister for Education, Science, Research and Technology, Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers
1995	Second International Symposium "Lasers in Dermatology"
1996	Discovery of red excited IR fluorescence as a method for differentiating caries and dental plaque from healthy tissue; patent application
1997	Kaltenbach & Voigt becomes additional founder of ILM
1997	Wankel Animal Protection Research Award to Dr. Angelika Rück, ILM and Dr. Karin Kunzi-Rapp, ILM for the establishment of the CAM model to spare animal experiments
1998	Market introduction of the fluorescent optical caries detector DIAGNOdent (KaVo)
1998	Cooperation Award "Science-Business " of the University of Ulm to Dr. Raimund Hibst, ILM and Prof. Ulrich Keller, Department of Oral Surgery
1999	The University Hospital of Ulm becomes another founder
2000	Constitution of an endowed profesorship by the company Kaltenbach & Voigt
2000	“Professor Adalbert Seifriz Price” awarded to the company Orthopaedics Walter and ILM
2001	Presentation of the first medical laser with fluorescence feedback (KEY 3)
2001	Organization of the 3rd International Symposium "Lasers in Dermatology"
2003	Heightening of the ILM building by one level
2004	Opening of the Laser Therapy Center (LTZ) by the Minister of Economic Affairs Ernst Pfister
2004	Poster Award of EUFEPS - European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences for an ILM research team
2004	Medical Technology Innovation Competition of the BMBF. Award to the project “Caries prevention by means of femtosecond laser technology (?)”
2006	ILM is selected as a “Site of the Day” of the initiative "Germany - Land of Ideas"
2007	Scientific Forum "Optical technologies for medicine and biotechnology," with the Federal Minister Dr. Annette Schavan
2008	Prof. Dr. Raimund Hibst becomes director of the Institute
2008	Citation Award from the Canadian Society for Medical Physics for the most cited paper in the field of medical physics to Dr. Alwin Kienle
2008	T.H. Maiman Award for excellence in dental laser research from the Academy of Laser Dentistry to Prof. Dr. Raimund Hibst
2010	“ReversFix” (demountable and re-usable dental prosthesis) together with Prof. R. G. Luthardt, University Clinic of Prosthetics
2010	Kaltenbach & Voigt retires as founder by the end of the year
2011	Opening of the Core Facility "Confocal and multiphoton laser scanning microscopy"
2011	Annual meeting of the German Society for Laser Medicine (DGLM e.V.) with symposium celebrating the 25th anniversary of ILM