diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 42a0623ac..112e766df 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ Config/Needs/verdepcheck:
     insightsengineering/teal.widgets,
     insightsengineering/formatters,
     yihui/knitr,
-    bioc::MultiAssayExperiment,
+    MultiAssayExperiment=bioc::MultiAssayExperiment,
     rstudio/rmarkdown,
-    bioc::SummarizedExperiment,
+    SummarizedExperiment=bioc::SummarizedExperiment,
     r-lib/testthat,
     r-lib/withr
 Config/Needs/website: insightsengineering/nesttemplate