diff --git a/src/eva/vision/models/networks/backbones/pathology/mahmood.py b/src/eva/vision/models/networks/backbones/pathology/mahmood.py
index 5aa55344..2bfa8717 100644
--- a/src/eva/vision/models/networks/backbones/pathology/mahmood.py
+++ b/src/eva/vision/models/networks/backbones/pathology/mahmood.py
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 """Pathology FMs from MahmoodLab."""
 
-import os
-from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Tuple
 
-import huggingface_hub
 import timm
 import torch
-from loguru import logger
 from torch import nn
 
 from eva.vision.models import wrappers
@@ -20,7 +16,6 @@ def mahmood_uni(
     dynamic_img_size: bool = True,
     out_indices: int | Tuple[int, ...] | None = None,
     hf_token: str | None = None,
-    download_dir: str = os.path.join(str(Path.home()), ".cache/eva"),
 ) -> nn.Module:
     """Initializes UNI model from MahmoodLab.
 
@@ -29,31 +24,20 @@ def mahmood_uni(
             the grid size (interpolate abs and/or ROPE pos) in the forward pass.
         out_indices: Whether and which multi-level patch embeddings to return.
         hf_token: HuggingFace token to download the model.
-        download_dir: Directory to download the model checkpoint.
 
     Returns:
         The model instance.
     """
-    checkpoint_path = os.path.join(download_dir, "uni.bin")
-    if not os.path.exists(checkpoint_path):
-        logger.info(f"Downloading the model checkpoint to {download_dir} ...")
-        os.makedirs(download_dir, exist_ok=True)
-        _utils.huggingface_login(hf_token)
-        huggingface_hub.hf_hub_download(
-            "MahmoodLab/UNI",
-            filename="uni.bin",
-            local_dir=download_dir,
-            force_download=True,
-        )
+    _utils.huggingface_login(hf_token)
 
     return wrappers.TimmModel(
-        model_name="vit_large_patch16_224",
+        model_name="hf-hub:MahmoodLab/uni",
+        pretrained=True,
         out_indices=out_indices,
         model_kwargs={
             "init_values": 1e-5,
             "dynamic_img_size": dynamic_img_size,
         },
-        checkpoint_path=checkpoint_path,
     )