Actuate Therapeutics

ACTU

Market cap $71.1M

Twice as many advanced pancreas cancer patients who received an experimental drug developed by Actuate Therapeutics with chemotherapy were alive after one year as those treated with chemo ​alone, according to results of a mid-stage trial.

CHICAGO and FORT WORTH, Texas, April 14, 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 publication of new data in  Nature Medicine from a randomized phase 2 clinical trial (NCT03678883) evaluating elraglusib in combination with the gemcitabine-Nab-paclitaxel (GnP) chemotherapy compared to GnP alone in patients with previously untreated metastatic pancreatic cancer. The peer-reviewed paper (DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04327-4), entitled “Elraglusib and Chemotherapy in Metastatic Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Randomized Controlled Phase 2 Trial” is available here.

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.

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.

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.

CHICAGO and FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 06, 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 results from the phase 1 portion of its phase 1/2 clinical study evaluating elraglusib as a monotherapy or in combination with irinotecan, irinotecan plus temozolomide, or with cyclophosphamide plus topotecan in pediatric patients with refractory malignancies (Actuate-1902; NCT 04239092).

Actuate Therapeutics, Inc. (ACTU) has been upgraded to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), reflecting growing optimism about the company's earnings prospects. This might drive the stock higher in the near term.

CHICAGO and FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 18, 2025 (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-3β (GSK-3β), today announced that data from its Phase 2 study evaluating elraglusib in metastatic pancreatic cancer have been selected for an oral presentation at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO GI Cancers Symposium), with additional data accepted for poster presentation. ASCO GI Cancers Symposium will be held January 8-10, 2026, in San Francisco, CA. The presentations will highlight results from the Company's Phase 2 study evaluating elraglusib in combination with gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel (GnP), a first-line chemotherapy regimen for metastatic pancreatic cancer. Details of the oral and poster presentations are provided below.

The average of price targets set by Wall Street analysts indicates a potential upside of 214.1% in Actuate Therapeutics, Inc. (ACTU). While the effectiveness of this highly sought-after metric is questionable, the positive trend in earnings estimate revisions might translate into an upside in the stock.