Checking through links yesterday I came across the mEDucator initiative and Melina+ [no longer available] which is part and noticed it is built using Drupal.
There is a thread on Drupal.org on science applications:
https://groups.drupal.org/science-applications
I posted in 2009 about the Science Collaboration Framework - SCF (for creating biomedical resources).
The link to SCF no longer works; there is an archive of this and other work that was part of Harvard's Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC).
So it's important to consider these initiatives at least in terms of their longevity, their scale and number of participants, as examples of funded research and as Drupal projects.