SAN DIEGO, Sept. 18, 2008 (GLOBE 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 data from the completed two-year Phase II clinical trial of orally administered MN-166 for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) was presented today in two poster presentations at the World Congress for Treatment and Research in MS being held in Montreal, Canada.