Professor Waechter is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. He is an internationally renowned scientist in the field of glycobiology, establishing the role of lipids in protein glycosylation.
He serves as a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Glycobiology, has authored relevant review articles on glycoconjugates and has published close to 100 original papers in peer reviewed journals.