The medical school at the University of California at Irvine has fired a mortician accused of selling body parts - another scandal for the institution where fertility doctors once stole eggs from women.

Christopher S. Brown, 27, was dismissed last week as director of the College of Medicine's Willed Body Program, where his job was to embalm and repair donated cadavers for research and to dispose of them afterward.

Besides allegedly selling spines to a research hospital, Brown also reportedly mishandled cremated remains, helped conduct unauthorized anatomy courses and abused his position by cutting business deals with companies owned by his wife and a friend.