Darya Pino

Darya Pino Rose is a weblogger, neuroscientist, and author. She is known as the founder of weblog Summer Tomato, and as a health & food contributor to The Huffington Post and other publications. In 2011, TIME named Rose's weblog, Summer Tomato, one of "50 Websites That Make the Web Great." She is the author of the book "Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting", (ISBN 9780062201256) published by HarperOne in May, 2013. Rose received a Ph.D in neuroscience from University of California, San Francisco in 2010 and has a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Molecular and Cell Biology, with an emphasis in neurobiology. She received the IL Chaikoff award from the MCB department at Berkeley recognizing her honors work. She currently resides in San Francisco, California.

On February 28, 2014, Pino and her husband Kevin Rose purchased an 1892 house at 1627 NW 32nd Avenue in the Willamette Heights area of Portland, Oregon. They removed the historic designation of the 122-year-old home and filed plans to demolish it. Some Portland residents responded with a petition ("Save the Rose House") to save the structure in an attempt to "preserve the history and character" of their neighborhood. On June 24, it was reported that the Roses had accepted an offer from long-time neighborhood residents to buy the house, although the deal hadn't been finalized.