Form: S-8

Initial registration statement for securities to be offered to employees pursuant to employee benefit plans

October 14, 2020

Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Heat Biologics, Inc.
Morrisville, North Carolina

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement of our report dated March 30, 2020, relating to the consolidated financial statements of Heat Biologics, Inc. appearing in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019. Our report contains an explanatory paragraph regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

/s/ BDO USA, LLP

Raleigh, North Carolina
October 13, 2020