NEEDHAM, MA--(Marketwire - April 30, 2008) - Bio-IT World magazine today announced the winners of its fourth Best Practices Awards program. Grand Prize winners within seven life sciences awards categories include Applied Biosystems, Christian-Albrechts-University, Eli Lilly & Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Genstruct, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, and Merck & Company.