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                             April 1, 2021

       Garo Armen
       President and Chairman of the Board of Directors
       AgenTus Therapeutics, Inc.
       3 Forbes Road
       Lexington, MA 02421

                                                        Re: AgenTus
Therapeutics, Inc.
                                                            Amendment No. 1 to
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
                                                            Submitted March 18,
2021
                                                            CIK No. 0001840229

       Dear Dr. Armen:

             We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and
have the following
       comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with
information so we
       may better understand your disclosure.

              Please respond to this letter by providing the requested
information and either submitting
       an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your
registration statement on
       EDGAR. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not
       believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.

             After reviewing the information you provide in response to these
comments and your
       amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we
may have additional
       comments.

       Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1

       Cover page

   1.                                                   With reference to prior
comment 2, please revise the cover page to highlight that you will
                                                        continue to be a
subsidiary of Agenus Inc. following the offering.
       Key Features of Our INTELLIGENT iNKT Cells, page 6

   2.                                                   We note your amended
disclosure in response to prior comment 5. With a view to revised
                                                        disclosure in the
Summary and Business sections, please tell us whether the
                                                        highlighted key
features of your INTELLIGENT iNKT cells are supported by preclinical
                                                        data. In this regard,
the key features discussed in the Summary appear generally applicable
                                                        to iNKT cells. In
addition, we note that your risk factor heading on page 21 references
 Garo Armen
AgenTus Therapeutics, Inc.
April 1, 2021
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       results of preclinical studies for AGENT-797; however, we do not see
discussion in the
       Business section regarding any such results.
Intellectual Property, page 100

3.     We note your revised disclosure in response to comment 22. Please
further revise to
       clarify the jurisdiction of the in-licensed patent from Agenus.
       You may contact Nudrat Salik at 202-551-3692 or Daniel Gordon at
202-551-3486 if you
have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters. Please
contact Dillon Hagius at 202-551-7967 or Joe McCann at 202-551-6262 with any
other
questions.



                                                           Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameGaro Armen
                                                           Division of
Corporation Finance
Comapany NameAgenTus Therapeutics, Inc.
                                                           Office of Life
Sciences
April 1, 2021 Page 2
cc:       Zachary Blume
FirstName LastName