diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b1c101e..6155fd1 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Imports:
     BiocParallel,
     ggcorrplot,
     magrittr,
-    httr,
+    httr2,
     mixOmics,
     nnet
 Suggests:
diff --git a/R/Utils.R b/R/Utils.R
index c1d56b8..4f0b1ae 100644
--- a/R/Utils.R
+++ b/R/Utils.R
@@ -167,7 +167,10 @@ DownloadFromGEO <- function(outfile = NULL, subset = c('All', 'T_NK', 'Myeloid',
 
   url <- paste0('ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSE277nnn/GSE277821/suppl/', fn)
   message(paste0('Downloading file: ', url))
-  httr::GET(url = url, httr::progress(), httr::write_disk(path = outfile, overwrite = TRUE))
+  req <- httr2::request(base_url = url) |>
+    httr2::req_progress()
+
+  resp <- httr2::req_perform(req = req, path = outfile)
 
   seuratObj <- readRDS(outfile)
   if (deleteDownloadedFile) {