Dr. Polkinghorn obtained an MBA from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, where he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow, and completed clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He then completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Charles L. Sawyers. For his research, Dr. Polkinghorn has been awarded the Prostate Cancer Foundation Creativity Award, ASCO Young Investigator Award, and the Charles A. Dana Fellowship.