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Joseph (József) Géza Sinkovics was born in Budapest Hungary. After grammar school (1930-1934), he completed his high school education at Zrínyi Miklós Realgymnasium, Budapest (1934-1942). His mother enrolled him at the Medical Faculty of Pázmány Péter University and the residence, Collegium Medicum, Budapest, Hungary, in 1942. Attended one semester in Breslau and Halle an der Saale, Germany, in 1944-5. Served his internship at Rókus Hospital, Budapest; Szent Kereszt Hospital, Kalocsa; and Department of Neurology, University of Szeged, Hungary (1946-8). Received his Doctor of Medicine degree summa cum laude at Pázmány Péter University (now Semmelweis University) in 1948. He served as instructor at the Institute of Pathophysiology (1944; 1946-1948), and became assistant and adjunct professor at the Institute of Microbiology (Bacteriology & Immunology) at the University in Budapest (1948-1950). He was imprisoned and served as a physician at the tuberculosis wards of the µVH (State Security Police) Prison Hospital at Vác, at the Punitive Institution of State Security, until he was released and acquitted with no crime committed (1950-1954). He worked as senior virologist at the State Institute of Public Health, Budapest (1954-1956). He left Hungary in 1956. In the USA, he received a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Waksman Institute, Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, NJ (1957). He served as intern and resident physician at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL, and at the University of Texas M.D.

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