diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 468545dc19..007281ac35 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml
 sphinx-autodoc-typehints==1.11.1
 pandas
 einops
-transformers<4.22; python_version <= '3.10'  # https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/issues/5157
+transformers>=4.36.0, <4.41.0; python_version <= '3.10'
 mlflow>=2.12.2
 clearml>=1.10.0rc0
 tensorboardX
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 09aeb22cac..a8ba25966b 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ tifffile; platform_system == "Linux" or platform_system == "Darwin"
 pandas
 requests
 einops
-transformers>=4.36.0
+transformers>=4.36.0, <4.41.0; python_version <= '3.10'
 mlflow>=2.12.2
 clearml>=1.10.0rc0
 matplotlib>=3.6.3
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 086722914e..7b82784a8a 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ all =
     imagecodecs
     pandas
     einops
-    transformers<4.22; python_version <= '3.10'
+    transformers>=4.36.0, <4.41.0; python_version <= '3.10'
     mlflow>=2.12.2
     clearml>=1.10.0rc0
     matplotlib>=3.6.3
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ pandas =
 einops =
     einops
 transformers =
-    transformers<4.22; python_version <= '3.10'
+    transformers>=4.36.0, <4.41.0; python_version <= '3.10'
 mlflow =
     mlflow>=2.12.2
 matplotlib =