One day after the Department of Justice said it plans to appeal the injunction that suspended federal funding for research embryonic stem cells, more details have emerged about the scientists who won this round. James Sherley, a researcher on stem cells in the Boston Biomedical Research Institute in Watertown, Massachusetts, made a hunger strike in 07 when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was denied tenure. Sherley said the decision was based on racism. When Sherley was ultimately rejected, a colleague at MIT, Frank Douglas, resigned in protest against the way the university handled the case.
Theresa Deisher is the founder of AVM Biotechnology in Seattle, Washington. She worked for several biotech companies before founding AVM in 07, receiving applause from some activists to work on stem cell ethics. According to Los Angeles Times , she told police in Seattle in 08 she was harassed by former colleagues who accused him of disclosing information that the company was investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The AVM web site includes a number of interviews and opinion pieces in which she criticized the research using embryos or fetal tissue, including for example, fetal cells based vaccines.
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