Adeline Boettcher
Growth & Strategy | Biotech and National Security
- Role
- Director, Capture Management at DEFCON AI
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Adeline Boettcher
Adeline Boettcher, PhD (Addie) is the Director of Capture Management at DEFCON AI and Head of Growth & Strategy at Tetrene Labs. DEFCON AI is a portfolio company from Red Cell Partners that focuses on creating models and software to optimize complex national security and business operations. Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building companies in national security and healthcare. Addie previously held numerous strategic and operational leadership roles across these companies, including DeployX, Savoy Life, and Zephyr AI (and also DEFCON AI at its launch). Tetrene Labs is a biotech company focused on molecular optimization of therapeutic leads. We have built Crucible, which is a disease-agnostic algorithm that generates optimized drug leads based on a disease targets of interest.Prior to these roles, Addie launched her own business, Alpha Beta Scientific Communications LLC (ABSC) in 2021. Here she worked as a consultant with a wide range of organizations—ranging from biotech and healthcare companies to academic and medical associations—on research and business strategy.Prior to ABSC, Addie was the Scientific Editor with the Radiological Society of North America where she worked with radiologists and publications teams on clinical reports from Radiology: Imaging Cancer, Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging, as well as Radiology.Before joining RSNA, Addie completed her postdoctoral work at Northwestern University, where her research was focused on immunotherapies in prostate cancer. She earned her PhD in 2019 from Iowa State University in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, which focused on the characterization of pigs with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Working with the cross-disciplinary team at Iowa State University, she and her team were the first group to generate immunologically humanized SCID pigs (SCID pigs engrafted with human immune cells).From her academic years, she is an author on 20 peer-reviewed publications, ranging in topics from swine biomedical models (pigs with severe combined immunodeficiency), cancer, and radiology.
Experience
Director, Capture Management
Mar 2025 — Present
Education
Iowa State University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
2015 — 2019
Northwestern University
Post-Doc, Cancer Immunology
2019 — 2019
North Central College
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology
2011 — 2015
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