A Texas biotech developing elraglusib, a GSK-3 beta inhibitor that improved survival in a randomised phase 2 in metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Actuate Therapeutics listed on Nasdaq in 2024 to fund elraglusib. Its lead programme is first-line metastatic pancreatic cancer with gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel, where the Actuate 1801 Part 3B randomised phase 2 reported longer survival; the company is planning a confirmatory phase 3 and also studies the drug in Ewing sarcoma and other tumours.
Elraglusib blocks a kinase that helps pancreatic cancer resist chemotherapy; in a randomised phase 2 it lengthened survival when added to gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel, and a phase 3 is planned.