diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 5073479d..03d4c741 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ uWSGI==2.0.18
 gevent==20.12.1
 cassandra-driver==3.19.0
 SimpleITK==1.2.3
-numpy==1.16.3
+numpy==1.20.1
 celery==4.3.1
 Pillow==6.2.0
 retrying==1.3.3