NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: RODM) today announced that the Company will host “Straight to the Heart”, a one-day thematic conference that will feature over a dozen companies from a variety of sub-specialties across the burgeoning cardiology space. Despite significant progress against the death and illness caused by its various manifestations, cardiovascular disease still is the number one killer of Americans. With an estimated 58MM+ Americans and 100MM+ WW sufferers, cardiovascular disease (“CVD”) presents the largest therapeutic category in both sales and scripts. Further, although this is the largest category of marketed drugs, many therapeutic voids still exist.