John Phan
Co-Founder and CEO
AI bioinformatics platform that automates biomedical research workflows end to end
Drylab (also known as Drylab AI) is an AI bioinformatics company founded in 2025 between Singapore and the US. Its platform helps life-science teams discover datasets, train custom models, and run one-click bioinformatics pipelines, and it builds research agents that can select from hundreds of scientific tools and databases with less constant human prompting. Co-founders include CEO John Phan, CTO/CRO Huy (Henry) Phan, and CSO Nhi Nguyen. In October 2026 it announced a US$3 million seed round led by Vertex Ventures with participation from PatSnap.