diff --git a/biobert_ner/requirements.txt b/biobert_ner/requirements.txt
index 8767869..f5e5c31 100644
--- a/biobert_ner/requirements.txt
+++ b/biobert_ner/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ idna==2.8
 idna-ssl==1.1.0
 jmespath==0.9.4
 multidict==4.5.2
-numpy==1.16.2
+numpy==1.22.0
 pkg-resources==0.0.0
 python-dateutil==2.8.0
 pytorch-pretrained-bert==0.6.1