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 January 6, 2026

VIA EDGAR

 Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

 100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attn:
 Tyler Howes

Alan Campbell

Re:
 Aktis Oncology, Inc.

Acceleration Request for Aktis Oncology, Inc.

Registration Statement on Form S-1

File No. 333-292283

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 We refer to the
registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-292283) (as amended, the “Registration Statement”), of Aktis Oncology, Inc. (the “Company”), relating to the
registration of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share.

 In accordance with Rules 460 and 461 under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, (the “Act”) we, as representatives of the several underwriters (the “Underwriters”), hereby respectfully request that the effectiveness of the Registration Statement be accelerated so
that it may become effective at 4:00 PM (Eastern time) on January 8, 2026, or at such later time as the Company or its counsel may orally request via telephone call to the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange
Commission.

 Pursuant to Rule 460 under the Act, we, as representatives of the several underwriters, wish to advise you that we will take
reasonable steps to secure adequate distribution of the preliminary prospectus to underwriters, dealers, institutions and others prior to the requested effective time of the Registration Statement.

We, the undersigned, as representatives of the several Underwriters, have complied and will comply, and we have been informed by the
participating Underwriters that they have complied and will comply, with the requirements of Rule 15c2-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

[Signature Page Follows]

Very truly yours,

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC

BOFA SECURITIES, INC.

LEERINK PARTNERS LLC

TD SECURITIES (USA) LLC

As representatives of the several underwriters

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC

By:

 /s/ Brandon Petillo

Name:

Brandon Petillo

Title:

Executive Director

BOFA SECURITIES, INC.

By:

 /s/ Greg Butz

Name:

Greg Butz

Title:

Co-Head of Global Healthcare Investment Banking, Managing Director

LEERINK PARTNERS LLC

By:

 /s/ Sean Pitt

Name:

Sean Pitt

Title:

Senior Managing Director

TD SECURITIES (USA) LLC

By:

 /s/ Brian Hagerty

Name:

Brian Hagerty

Title:

Managing Director

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 Aktis Oncology, Inc.

17 Drydock Avenue, Suite 17-401

Boston, Massachusetts 02110

 January 6, 2026

 VIA EDGAR

 United States Securities and Exchange
Commission

 Division of Corporation Finance

 Office of Life
Sciences

 100 F Street, N.E.

 Washington, D.C. 20549-0406

Attn:
 Tyler Howes

Alan Campbell

Re:
 Aktis Oncology, Inc.

Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File
No. 333-292283)

 Request for Acceleration of Effective Date

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 Pursuant to Rule 461
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Aktis Oncology, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby respectfully requests that the effectiveness of the Registration Statement on Form S-1
(File No. 333-292283) of the Company, originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on December 19, 2025, as amended (the
“Registration Statement”), be accelerated so that such Registration Statement shall become effective at 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on January 8, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter.

It would be appreciated if, promptly after the Registration Statement has become effective, you would so inform our outside counsel, Siavosh
Salimi of Paul Hastings LLP, by telephone at (212) 318-6030 or by email at seosalimi@paulhastings.com, and William A. Magioncalda of Paul Hastings LLP, by telephone at (212)
318-6088 or by email at willmagioncalda@paulhastings.com. The Company hereby authorizes Messrs. Salimi or Magioncalda of Paul Hastings LLP to orally modify or withdraw this request for acceleration.

Sincerely,

AKTIS ONCOLOGY, INC.

By:

 /s/ Matthew Roden, PhD

Name:

Matthew Roden, PhD

Title:

Chief Executive Officer

cc:
 Siavosh Salimi, Esq. (Paul Hastings LLP)

William A. Magioncalda, Esq. (Paul Hastings LLP)

Deanna L. Kirkpatrick, Esq. (Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP)

Yasin Keshvargar, Esq. (Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP)

December 5, 2024
Matthew Roden
Chief Executive Officer
Aktis Oncology, Inc.
17 Drydock Avenue, Suite 17-401
Boston, MA 02210
Re:Aktis Oncology, Inc.
Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Submitted November 22, 2024
CIK No. 0002035832
Dear Matthew Roden:
            We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and have the following
comments.
            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 a comment applies 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 this letter 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
Prospectus summary
Overview, page 1
1.We note your response to prior comment 2 and re-issue. Please revise the Overview
section to reflect your disclosure elsewhere in the prospectus indicating that your
platform represents a novel approach to radiation therapy which could create
significant and unpredictable challenges.
2.Please balance your discussion of Padcev's peak sales potential with disclosure of
historical sales figures for Padcev. Please also revise here to clearly state that
your [225Ac]Ac-AKY-1189 candidate has not yet received approval for commercial
sale and may never attain the same level of commercial success as Padcev.

December 5, 2024
Page 2
3.Please revise the Overview section to clarify, if true, that actinium-225 has yet to be
included in an approved oncology therapy and, if true, that data supporting its
increased anticancer activity has yet to be observed in a pivotal clinical trial
supporting an approval.
Business
Expanding the potential of radiopharmaceuticals, page 142
4.We note your response to prior comment 16 and reissue. Please remove your
comparisons of  177Lu Pluvicto to  225Ac Pluvicto as you have stated that such
comparisons are not based upon head-to-head clinical trials.
License and collaboration agreements
Institute for Protein Innovation License Agreement, page 159
5.Please revise to clarify if you have exercised the right that expired November 1, 2024
to negotiate a license or amendment to the IPI Agreement covering certain of IPI’s
improvements related to your licensed patents.
            Please contact Bonnie Baynes at 202-551-4924 or Angela Connell at 202-551-3426 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters. Please contact Tyler Howes at 202-551-3370 or Alan Campbell at 202-551-4224
with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Life Sciences
cc:Seo Salimi, Esq.

November 7, 2024
Matthew Roden, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Aktis Oncology, Inc.
17 Drydock Avenue, Suite 17-401
Boston, MA 02210
Re:Aktis Oncology, Inc.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Submitted October 11, 2024
CIK No. 0002035832
Dear Matthew Roden Ph.D.:
            We have reviewed your draft registration statement and have the following comments.
            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 a comment applies 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 this letter and your
amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may have additional
comments.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Prospectus summary
Overview, page 1
1.We note your statement that you are a "clinical-stage" oncology company. However,
disclosure on pages 2 and 133 indicates that you have yet to file an IND for your lead
product candidate with the FDA. Please reconcile your disclosure or advise.
2.Please revise the second paragraph of your Overview section to reflect your disclosure
elsewhere in the prospectus indicating that your platform represents a novel approach
to radiation therapy which could create significant and unpredictable challenges.
Please revise your registration statement to remove all statements indicating that your
product candidates are safe or have demonstrated efficacy. Examples of statements
indicating your product candidates are safe or have demonstrated efficacy include, but 3.

November 7, 2024
Page 2
are not limited to, the following:
•"Our miniproteins have demonstrated the ability to effectively bind to tumor
targets..." (pages 1 and 132)
•"Our platform has enabled us to engineer potent...radioconjugates..." (page 3)
•"Enhanced safety...profile (page 4)
•"[225Ac]Ac-AKY-1189 has demonstrated potent anticancer activity..." (page 6)
•"Our product candidates have demonstrated high selectivity for their tumor targets
using a well-established cell-surface array assay." (page 135)
Conclusions as to the safety and efficacy are within the sole authority of the FDA and
comparable foreign regulators. You may present the objective data observed in your
preclinical studies without drawing conclusions regarding such data.
4.Please remove the references here and elsewhere to your miniprotein radioconjugate
programs potentially being "first-in-class" as this is speculative in light of your current
development status.
5.To the extent that actinium-225 does not form a part of a currently approved oncology
therapy, please remove your references here and throughout to its "efficacy." Please
similarly revise your references to the "efficacy" of alpha-emitting radioconjugates to
the extent that the product candidates being referenced are not approved therapies.
You may summarize the results of clinical trials without concluding as to efficacy.
6.Please remove your reference to the estimated peak sales of Padcev as Padcev's
estimated peak sales do not appear to be currently material to your business.
7.We note your statements here related to the "clinical validation" and
"commercialization" of certain approved therapeutic candidates. Please revise here to
state, if true, that your product candidates have not yet been tested in clinical trials and
will require FDA approval before commercialization. Please also clarify, if true, that
both Pluvicto and Lutathera are beta-emitting therapies and that even if one or more of
your product candidates receives marketing approval, there is no guarantee they will
achieve similar sales to Pluvicto or other approved radiopharmaceutical therapies.

To the extent that Pluvicto is a beta-emitting therapy and given that your lead product
candidate appears to be an alpha-emitting therapy, please tell us why it is appropriate
for you to reference Pluvicto's sales, rather than Xofigo's.
8.Please revise your discussion of the beneficial characteristics of miniproteins here and
elsewhere to clarify, if true, that none of these characteristics have been observed in a
clinical trial.
9.Please revise your disclosure discussing your "wholly-owned" product candidates to
clarify that you do not own any issued patents relating to the active pharmaceutical
ingredient,  225Ac, in your [ 225Ac]Ac-AKY-1189 candidate.
10.Please revise your Summary, where appropriate, to briefly explain the concepts of
conjugation and chelation.
Our pipeline, page 5
Please revise your pipeline table to provide no more than two columns for the 11.

November 7, 2024
Page 3
preclinical stage of development. Please also separate the Phase 2/3 column into two
distinct columns.
Our strategy, page 7
12.Please remove your reference here and on page 138 to "rapidly"
advancing [225Ac]Ac-AKY-1189 development.
Our team, page 7
13.Please limit the disclosure of specific investors both here and on page 138 to those
identified in your Principal Stockholders table on page 213. For example, we note
that Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Merck and Novartis do not appear in this table.
Risk Factors
Our third-party manufacturers and clinical reagent suppliers may be subject to damage...,
page 57
14.Please revise to disclose the name of the "China-domiciled company" that you have
engaged to manufacture certain miniprotein variants. Please also discuss any steps you
have taken to mitigate potential risks related to this third-party manufacturer, such as
evaluating potential replacement contract manufacturing organizations in the United
States or European Union.
Certain of our technology licensed from third parties..., page 71
15.Please revise this risk factor to identify which of your product candidates and/or
technologies could become subject to march-in rights.
Business
Expanding the potential of radiopharmaceuticals, page 139
16.To the extent that your comparisons of  177Lu Pluvicto to  225Ac Pluvicto are not based
on head-to-head clinical trials, please remove them.
Our solution: [225Ac]Ac-AKY-1189, page 145
17.Please tell us if your study comparing [ 225Ac]Ac-AKY-1189 to Padcev was
conducted as a head-to-head study. If the study was not conducted head-to-head,
please remove all comparisons to Padcev. Alternatively, please advise.
18.Please revise your statement claiming your [ 225Ac]Ac-AKY-1189 candidate had
"more potent anticancer activity" than Padcev, as it improperly implies
this candidate is both effective and comparable to a product that is already approved
for commercial sale.
Investigator-initiated clinical imaging assessment , page 150
19.Please disclose if any adverse events were observed in connection with the
investigator-initiated clinical imaging assessment of AKY-1189. In your
revisions, please also specify the types and quantity of any serious adverse events
observed, if applicable.

November 7, 2024
Page 4
Our clinical development strategy, page 152
20.Please revise to briefly explain what a "BOIN design" is in the context of the dose
escalation phase of your planned clinical trial of [ 225Ac]Ac-AKY-1189.
License and collaboration agreements
Institute for Protein Innovation License Agreement, page 156
21.Please revise to clarify whether any of your product candidates are subject to the IPI
Agreement.
Eli Lilly and Company License, Research and Collaboration Agreement, page 158
22.We note your disclosure here stating that Eli Lilly will be required to pay you tiered
royalties of up to "low-double digits" upon the commercialization of therapeutic or
diagnostic products pursuant to your collaboration agreement. Please revise to limit
this royalty range to ten percentage points.
Signatures, page II-6
23.Please revise to identify the individuals signing in the capacities of your principal
financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller.  Refer to instruction 1 to
Signature on Form S-1.
General
24.Please supplementally provide us with copies of all written communications, as
defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, that you, or anyone authorized to do so
on your behalf, present to potential investors in reliance on Section 5(d) of the
Securities Act, whether or not they retain copies of the communications.
            Please contact Bonnie Baynes at 202-551-4924 or Angela Connell at 202-551-3426 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters. Please contact Tyler Howes at 202-551-3370 or Alan Campbell at 202-551-4224
with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Life Sciences
cc:Seo Salimi, Esq.