Af­ter a leg­endary stint at Cel­gene's helm, bio­phar­ma vet Bob Hug­in is on his way out — as Sen­ate race ru­mors swirl

Af­ter or­ches­trat­ing the emer­gence of one of the biggest biotechs to come along in the past 20 years, Bob Hug­in has an­nounced his re­tire­ment as ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of Cel­gene.

His de­par­ture comes right on the heels of word that Hug­in, a com­mit­ted Re­pub­li­can and ma­jor league con­trib­u­tor to the con­ser­v­a­tive par­ty in New Jer­sey, has been con­sid­er­ing a run for the Sen­ate in a show­down with De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tor Bob Menen­dez.

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