Dr. Dominik Funken, MD, is a German pediatrician and board-certified pediatric pulmonologist with a research focus on cystic fibrosis and pediatric lung disease. From 2016 to 2025, he worked at Hannover Medical School in a major pediatric pulmonary, cystic fibrosis, and lung transplantation center, where he also trained as a clinician scientist in the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation-supported TITUS program. He is currently a DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, conducting clinical and translational research on cystic fibrosis in the era of highly effective CFTR modulator therapy. His work focuses on outcome measures and biomarkers when traditional endpoints become less sensitive, including multiple-breath washout, lung clearance index methodology, extracellular vesicle proteomics, airway inflammation, and clinical trial design in children and adolescents with CF. Dr. Funken is a member of the Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Pneumologie (GPP) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS).