Dicle Ezgi (Woo Lab) wins 2025 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize

CCB undergraduate Dicle Ezgi Ekinci is a recipient of the 2025 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize  for excellent undergraduate work and excellence in the art of teaching. Ekinci, a member of the Woo Lab, has won a for her submission entitled “Development of Cyclimid Molecular Glues for Targeted Degradation of Oncoproteins”—supervised and nominated by Professor Christina Woo.

The Hoopes Prize, awarded to 71 Harvard undergraduates this year, annually recognizes students for their “outstanding scholarly work or research,” usually for senior theses. The award is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, class of 1919, for the purpose of “promoting, improving, and enhancing the quality of education.”

Student winners are awarded $5,000, and faculty nominators of winning projects are awarded $2,000 for promoting “excellence in the art of teaching.” Each winning project is bound and available in Lamont Library for two years.