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                            February 11, 2021

       Kevin R. Lind
       President and Chief Executive Officer
       Longboard Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
       6154 Nancy Ridge Drive
       San Diego, CA 92121

                                                        Re: Longboard
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
                                                            Amendment No. 1 to
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
                                                            Submitted January
29, 2021
                                                            CIK No. 0001832168

       Dear Mr. Lind:

            We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and have
the following
       comment.

              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 submitted
January 29, 2021

       Business
       Our Product Candidates
       LP352, an oral, centrally acting, 5-HT2c superagonist, page 94

   1.                                                   We note your response
to our prior comment number 7. Please revise to provide details of
                                                        the trials shown in the
comparison on page 99, such as the number of subjects, dosage,
                                                        duration and how the
baseline was measured in each study.
 Kevin R. Lind
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           Pharmaceuticals,R. Lind
                            Inc.
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            2021           Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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matters. Please
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questions.



                                                        Sincerely,

                                                        Division of Corporation
Finance
                                                        Office of Life Sciences
cc:      Steve Przesmicki, Esq.