SAN DIEGO, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- MediciNova, Inc., a pharmaceutical company that is publicly traded on the Hercules Market of the Osaka Securities Exchange (Code Number: 4875), today announced that Kenneth W. Locke, Ph.D., Chief Business Officer of MediciNova, will present a Company overview at 4:30 PM, Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, September 26, at the 2006 UBS Global Life Sciences Conference. The Conference is being held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.