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| Schedule of future minimum annual payments           | As of December 31, 2012, future minimum annual payments under all operating lease agreements are as follows:Years ending December 31, MinimumAnnual Payments 2013 $2,410 2014  2,410 2015  2,470 2016  2,532 2017  2,595 Thereafter  8,182 Total $20,599                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Schedule of licensing, service and supply agreements | Agreement  Paid from inception to December 31, 2012  Future (1)Commitments Terms Progenics agreements with:         Lonza Sales AG $909  $808 Annual license fee payments, milestones and royalties, as applicable, in respect of oncology and other products.             PSMA LLC agreements with:Seattle Genetics, Inc.  4,400   13,800 Milestone and periodic maintenance payments to use ADC technology to link chemotherapeutic agents to monoclonal antibodies that target prostate specific membrane antigen. ADC technology is based in part on technology licensed by SGI from third parties.             Amgen Fremont, Inc. (formerly Abgenix)  1,350   5,750 Milestones and royalties to use XenoMouse® technology for generating fully human antibodies to PSMA LLC's PSMA antigen.             Former member of PSMA LLC  241   52,216 Annual minimum royalty payments and milestones to use technology related to PSMA.(1) Amounts based on known contractual obligations as specified in the respective license agreements, which are dependent on the achievement or occurrence of future milestones or events and exclude amounts for royalties which are dependent on future sales and are unknown. |

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Tabular disclosure of future minimum payments required in the aggregate and for each of the five succeeding fiscal years for operating leases having initial or remaining noncancelable lease terms in excess of one year and the total minimum rentals to be received in the future under noncancelable subleases as of the balance sheet date.
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