UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

April 2, 2014

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

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AGENUS INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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781-674-4400
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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Item 8.01   Other Events

Agenus Inc. today announced that GlaxoSmithKline’s (“GSK”) MAGRITⁱ study, a Phase 3 randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled MAGE-A3ⁱⁱ cancer immunotherapeutic trial in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, which contains Agenus’QS-21 Stimulon^® adjuvant, will be stopped.  GSK announced that it will not be possible to identify a sub-population of gene-signature positive NSCLC patients that may benefit from the treatment.

i A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled Phase III trial to assess the efficacy of recMAGE-A3 + AS15 antigen-specific cancer immunotherapeutic as adjuvant therapy in patients with MAGE-A3 positive NSCLC  (MAGRIT, NCT00480025).

ii MAGE-A3 cancer immunotherapeutic consists of recombinant MAGE-A3 protein and a novel immunostimulant AS15 (a combination of QS-21 Stimulon^® adjuvant, monophosphoryl lipid A, and CpG7909, a TLR-9 agonist, in a liposomal formulation).

Item 9.01   Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

The following exhibit is filed herewith:

                            99.1     Press Release dated April 2, 2014

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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