SEC FORM 3 SEC Form 3
FORM 3 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
 
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Cawkwell Gail

(Last) (First) (Middle)
C/O ACLARIS THERAPEUTICS, INC.
640 LEE ROAD, SUITE 200

(Street)
WAYNE PA 19087

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
06/27/2022
3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. [ ACRS ]
4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
Chief Medical Officer
5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4) 2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4) 3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Explanation of Responses:
Remarks:
No securities are beneficially owned. Exhibit 24.1 - Power of Attorney
No securities are beneficially owned.
/s/ Mark Ballantyne, Attorney-in-Fact 07/05/2022
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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Ex. 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

(For Executing Form ID and Forms 3, 4 and 5)

	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Brian F. Leaf, Mark Ballantyne, Andrew Durand and Robin Lee of
Cooley LLP, and Frank Ruffo of Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. (the "Company"), the
undersigneds true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents to:

	(1)	Prepare, execute in the undersigneds name and on the undersigneds behalf,
and submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID,
Uniform Application for Access Codes to File on EDGAR, including amendments
thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and
passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of
reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the "Exchange Act"), or any rule or regulation thereunder;

	(2)	Prepare, execute in the undersigneds name and on the undersigneds behalf,
and submit to the SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5 (including amendments thereto and joint
filing agreements in connection therewith) in accordance with Section 16(a) of
the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder in the undersigneds capacity as an
officer, director or beneficial owner of more than 10% of a registered class of
securities of the Company;

	(3)	Do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that
may be necessary or desirable to prepare and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5
(including amendments thereto and joint filing agreements in connection
therewith) and file such forms with the SEC and any stock exchange,
self-regulatory association or any similar authority; and

	(4)	Take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing that, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required of the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by the attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as the attorney-in-fact may approve in the
attorney-in-facts discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney in fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney in fact, or such attorney
in facts substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The
undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, and their
substitutes, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are
not assuming (nor is the Company assuming) any of the undersigneds
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the earliest
to occur of (a) the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5
with respect to the undersigneds holdings of and transactions in securities
issued by the Company, (b) revocation by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the Company and the foregoing attorneys-in fact or (c) as to any
attorney-in-fact individually, until such attorney-in-fact is no longer employed
by the Company or Cooley LLP, as applicable.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of the date written below.

Date: 	June 27, 2022


By:	/s/ Gail Cawkwell
	Gail Cawkwell