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• Microoptics
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1985 | Establishment of a foundation under civil law by Aesulap-Werke AG, Tuttlingen and Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen The first director of the institute is Prof. Dr. Rudolf Steiner |
1985 | Laying of the foundation stone |
1985 | Inauguration of the building by the Minister President of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Dr.h.c. Lothar Späth |
1988 | Visit of the Federal Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl |
1988 | First publication on the effect of erbium lasers on hard dental tissue |
1988 | First test of an erbium laser on humans |
1989 | International Symposium "Lasers in Dermatology" together with the 5th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Laser Medicine (DGLM e.V.) |
1990 | Presentation of the Merkle Research Prize of the University of Ulm to Dr. Raimund Hibst (ILM) and Dr. Ulrich Keller (Department of Dental Surgery at the University of Ulm) |
1992 | Presentation of the first Erbium laser for medical applications at the International Dental Show in Cologne |
1992 | Visit of Nobel Prize winner Prof. A.M. Prokhorov, developer of the first laser, from the General Physics Institute, Moscow |
1994 | Extension of the ILM to: Institute for Laser Technologies in Medicine and Metrology at the University of Ulm |
1995 | Visit of the Federal Minister of Education, Science, Research and Technology, Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers |
1995 | 2nd international symposium "Lasers in Dermatology |
1996 | Discovery of exited by red light IR fluorescence as a method for differentiating caries or plaque from healthy tooth tissue; patent application |
1997 | Kaltenbach & Voigt becomes another founder of the ILM |
1997 | Wankel animal welfare research prize for Dr. Angelika Rück, ILM, and Dr. Karin Kunzi-Rapp, ILM, for establishing the CAM |
1998 | Market launch of the fluorescence-optical caries detector DIAGNOdent (KaVo) |
1998 | Presentation of the "Science-Industry Cooperation Prize" to PD Dr. Raimund Hibst, ILM, and Prof. Ulrich Keller, Department of Dental Surgery at the University of Ulm |
1999 | The University Hospital of Ulm becomes another donor |
2000 | Establishment of an endowed professorship by the company Kaltenbach & Voigt |
2000 | Prof. Adalbert Seifriz Prize awarded to the ILM and the company Orthopädie Walter |
2001 | Presentation of the first medical laser with fluorescence feedback (KEY3) |
2001 | Organization of the 3rd international symposium "Lasers in Dermatology |
2003 | Extension of the ILM building |
2004 | Opening of the Laser Therapy Center (LTZ) by the Minister of Economics Ernst Pfister |
2004 | EUFEPS - European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences Poster Prize for an ILM research team |
2004 | Medical Technology Innovation Competition of the BMBF. Award of the project "Caries prevention by femto-second laser technology (?)". |
2006 | ILM is selected as place of the day as part of the "Germany - Land of Ideas" initiative |
2007 | Scientific Forum "Optical Technologies for Medicine and Biotechnology" with Federal Minister Dr. Annette Schavan |
2008 | Prof. Dr. Raimund Hibst becomes head of the institute |
2008 | Citation Award of the Canadian Medical Physics Society for the most cited paper in the field of medical physics to PD Dr. Alwin Kienle, ILM |
2008 | T.H. Maiman-Preis für Exzellenz in der zahnärztlichen Laserforschung der Akademie für Laserzahnmedizin an Prof. Dr. Raimund Hibst |
2010 | Medical Technology Innovation Competition of the BMBF. Award of the project "ReversFix" (removable and reusable dental prosthesis) together with Prof. R. G. Luthardt, University Clinic for Dental Prosthetics |
2010 | Kaltenbach & Voigt resigns as founder at the end of the year |
2011 | Opening of the Core Facility "Confocal and Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscopy |
2011 | Annual conference of the German Society for Laser Medicine (DGLM e.V.) with a symposium to mark the ILM's 25th anniversary |
2014 | Ausrichtung der "Internationalen Konferenz über Laseranwendungen in den Biowissenschaften" (LALS 2014) |
2018 | Establishment of the "Photonic Microsystems" research centre |
2020 | Alexander Hack becomes director of the institute |