United States securities and exchange commission logo April 27, 2020 Tahir Mahmood, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer Applied Molecular Transport Inc. 1 Tower Place, Suite 850 South San Francisco, California 94080 Re: Applied Molecular Transport Inc. Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 Confidentially Submitted on April 10, 2020 CIK No. 0001801777 Dear Mr. Mahmood: We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and have the following comment. In our comment, 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 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 comment 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 Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Critical Accounting Policies, Significant Judgments and Use of Estimates Stock-Based Compensation Expense, page 93 1. Once you have an estimated offering price or range, please explain to us how you determined the fair value of the common stock underlying your equity issuances and the reasons for any differences between the recent valuations of your common stock leading up to the IPO and the estimated offering price. This information will help facilitate our review of your accounting for equity issuances including stock compensation and beneficial conversion features. Tahir Mahmood, Ph.D. Applied Molecular Transport Inc. April 27, 2020 Page 2 You may contact David Burton at 202-551-3626 or Vanessa Robertson at 202-551-3649 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Jessica Livingston at 202-551-3448 or Michael Clampitt at 202-551- 3434 with any other questions. FirstName LastNameTahir Mahmood, Ph.D. Sincerely, Comapany NameApplied Molecular Transport Inc. Division of Corporation Finance April 27, 2020 Page 2 Office of Life Sciences FirstName LastName