Golub is active in charitable and civic organizations. Golub and his family actively support medical research to advance treatments for Parkinson's disease at several leading institutions. In 2001, he established the Golub Stem Cell Initiative for Parkinson's with a $500,000 donation to the New York Stem Cell Foundation. He also funded a Parkinson's research effort within the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, which currently focuses on Parkinson's, juvenile diabetes, and ALS.
