diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index dd49cd4b1..0834546e0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ def get_data_files():
         'async_generator',
         'jupyter_server>=0.1.0,<0.2.0',
         'jupyter_client>=6.0.0',
-        'nbclient @ git+https://github.com/jupyter/nbclient',
+        'nbclient @ git+https://github.com/davidbrochart/nbclient@nest_asyncio',
         'nbconvert @ git+https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert',
         'jupyterlab_pygments>=0.1.0,<0.2',
         'pygments>=2.4.1,<3'  # Explicitly requiring pygments which is a second-order dependency.