SAN DIEGO, May 13, 2008 (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 Shintaro Asako, Chief Financial Officer of MediciNova, will present a company overview at the Rodman and Renshaw 5th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 8:40 a.m. local time (2:40 a.m. Eastern time). The conference is being held at the Le Meridien Beach Plaza Hotel in Monaco, Monte Carlo.
