diff --git a/nginx/conf.d-prod/portal-ui.conf b/nginx/conf.d-prod/portal-ui.conf
index 05f59b7..22b2bec 100644
--- a/nginx/conf.d-prod/portal-ui.conf
+++ b/nginx/conf.d-prod/portal-ui.conf
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ server {
         # gzip_http_version sets the minimum HTTP version of a request required to compress a response to 1.1 by default.
         # proxy_http_version needs to be >= that, but is 1.0 by default.
         proxy_http_version  1.1;
+        
+        # Due to cells-api slowness
+        # Increase timeout to 10 minutes until a real solution is ready
+        proxy_connect_timeout 600;
+        keepalive_timeout 600 600;
+        proxy_read_timeout 600;
+        proxy_send_timeout 600;
     }
 
 }