MARCY L'ETOILE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:bioMérieux (Paris:BIM), a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, is proud to announce that it is the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2008 North American Market Leadership Award for Pharmaceutical Microbiology. bioMérieux received an overall score of 10.13 out of a possible 12.00 points, the highest overall Frost & Sullivan Competitive Metrics Score in the U.S. Rapid Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Microbiology Tests Market. The Market Leadership Award is given to a company that displays overall excellence in the market leadership process, including the identification of market challenges, drivers and restraints, brand recognition as well as strategy development and methods of addressing market trends.