Sherley is now a senior scientist at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, a less prestigious post.
Yesterday, a lawsuit in which Sherley is co-plaintiff threw other stem cell researchers into turmoil.
Sherley and Deisher are saying, essentially, that we should fund their work instead of more promising, better research.
Sherley and Deisher started canvassing Capitol Hill this week, anticipating the matter ultimately may be decided by Congress.
Sherley has never been in that camp, and has always been vocal in his opposition to the embryonic cells.
Sherley and Deisher said they were talking with congressional aides about why reviving the legislation would be a mistake.
Dr. Sherley, 52 years old, staged a 12-day hunger strike in 2007 after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology denied him tenure.
Sherley left and joined BBRI, a far less prestigious institute than MIT.
The case that halted all embryonic stem cell research was filed by James L. Sherley and Theresa Deisher, with the backing of anti-abortion groups.
Sherley is at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute (BBRI), a small research institute in Boston, and Deisher is at a small startup company in Seattle called AVM Biotechnology.
Dr. Deisher is Catholic and wears a small gold cross, while Dr. Sherley is Baptist, but both say their views on the matter are driven by ethics, not religion.
Which is why it might surprise some people that Church was a defender of James Sherley, the researcher whose lawsuit has now led to an injunction on government funding of embryonic stem cell research during a tenure dispute.
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