Actuate Therapeutics Inc·Healthcare
Actuate Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing therapies for the treatment of cancers. The company's lead product candidate is Elraglusib Injection, a novel glycogen synthase kinase-3 inhibitor to treat metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. It also develops Elraglusib for the treatment of Ewing sarcoma, metastatic melanoma, and colorectal cancer. The company was formerly known as Apotheca Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Actuate Therapeutics, Inc. in October 2015. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.
Healthcare
Biotechnology
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2024-08-13
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Meg Flippin, Benzinga Staff Writer CHICAGO, IL AND FORT WORTH, TX / ACCESS Newswire / March 24, 2026 / Actuate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACTU) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing elraglusib, a first-in-class, highly selective small-molecule inhibitor of glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β). This multimodal agent targets tumor survival pathways, DNA damage response, NF-κB signaling and the tumor immune microenvironment, offering a new potential treatment across multiple difficult-to-treat cancers including metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (mPDAC), melanoma, colorectal cancer and sarcomas.

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CHICAGO and FORT WORTH, Texas, March 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Actuate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACTU) (“Actuate” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for the treatment of high-impact, difficult-to-treat cancers through the inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β), today announced the launch of an expanded research initiative evaluating combinations of its clinical-stage GSK-3β inhibitor elraglusib with emerging RAS-targeted therapies.

CHICAGO and FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Actuate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACTU) (“Actuate” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for the treatment of high-impact, difficult-to-treat cancers through the inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β), today announced that Dan Schmitt, President & CEO of the Company, will present at the Oppenheimer 36th Annual Healthcare Life Sciences conference on February 26, 2026 at 9:20 a.m. ET.

-Initiation of phase 1 portion of the trial planned in 2H 2026 -Phase 2 portion of the trial will initiate development of the elraglusib tablet in specific indications, including refractory melanoma and additional target solid tumor and hematologic cancers -Program builds on early clinical evidence of monotherapy activity observed in immune checkpoint inhibitor (CPI)-refractory metastatic melanoma in a previously completed trial CHICAGO and FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan.

CHICAGO and FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Actuate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACTU) (“Actuate” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for the treatment of high-impact, difficult-to-treat cancers through the inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β), today announced that new additional and promising patient survival and biomarker data from treatment with elraglusib for metastatic pancreatic cancer were featured in oral and poster presentations at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO GI) on January 9, 2026. The presentations highlighted new, expanded data from the Company's Phase 2 clinical program (Actuate 1801-Part 3B) evaluating elraglusib in combination with gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel (GnP), a first-line chemotherapy regimen for metastatic pancreatic cancer, providing additional evidence that suggests that elraglusib combined with GnP is associated with improved survival when compared with GnP alone.