MediciNova amends La Jolla office lease, extending term to April 2030
The company signed a first amendment on September 23, 2026, pushing the lease end date back more than three years and setting future rent increases.
MediciNova, Inc. reported in an 8-K signed September 28, 2026 that it entered into a lease amendment dated September 23, 2026. The amendment modified the company's existing lease, originally dated July 20, 2021, between MediciNova and the Irvine Company LLC, with the amendment itself made between MediciNova and Newport Gateway Office LLC.1
The change centers on the term of the lease for the company's offices. The amendment extended the lease's end date from January 31, 2027 to April 30, 2030, unless the lease is terminated earlier under its terms, and it set certain rent increases to begin on February 1, 2027.1
MediciNova did not disclose the specific dollar amounts of the rent increases in the filing. The company said the description of the amendment in the filing is not complete and is qualified by the full amendment text, which it expects to file as an exhibit to its Form 10-Q for the quarter ending September 30, 2026.1
The filing lists MediciNova's principal offices at 4275 Executive Square, Suite 300, in La Jolla, California, the location covered by the lease. The address of the registrant's principal executive offices is given as 4275 Executive Square, Suite 300, La Jolla, CA 92037.1 The report was signed by Yuichi Iwaki, President and Chief Executive Officer of MediciNova, with a signature date of September 28, 2026. The filing does not separately state the date it was submitted to the SEC.
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