SAN DIEGO, May 25, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- MediciNova, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that is publicly traded on the Nasdaq Global Market (Nasdaq:MNOV) and the Hercules Market of the Osaka Securities Exchange (Code Number: 4875), today announced that MediciNova will present a company overview at the J.M. Dutton Health Science Small Cap Conference on May 30, 2007 at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time at the OMNI Hotel in San Francisco and at the Friedman Billings Ramsey Growth Conference on May 31, 2007 at 2:20 p.m. Eastern time at the Grand Hyatt in New York.