diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 965bbd4f..5498f384 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ dependencies = [
     "uvicorn",
     "click",
     "boto3",
-    "ga4gh.vrs~=2.0.0a8",
+    "ga4gh.vrs==2.0.0a13",
 ]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 etl = [
-    "disease-normalizer[etl]~=0.5.0",
+    "disease-normalizer[etl]~=0.7.0",
     "owlready2",
     "rdflib",
     "wikibaseintegrator>=0.12.0",