# Building A Cancer Pipeline In A Molecule With Actuate Therapeutics' Dan Schmitt

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Podcast: [Business Of Biotech](https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-of-biotech-123501)
Published: 2025-12-01T11:00:00+00:00
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We love to hear from our listeners. Send us a message. On this week's episode of the Business of Biotech, Dan Schmitt, President and CEO at Actuate Therapeutics, talks about building a company around elraglusib, a GSK-3β inhibitor for cancer. Dan describes his fast-fail approach to early product testing and development, using basket trials to evaluate chemotherapy combinations, and choosing pancreatic cancer as a lead program. He also talks about surviving an IPO during a brutal funding cycl...

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